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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:21:47 -0600
From:      Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>
To:        Hein Hermans <he1nh@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow keyboard response, Presario 1230 laptop
Message-ID:  <20031126142147.GD15894@npkfbsd>
In-Reply-To: <20031126112606.38882.qmail@web21312.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20031126112606.38882.qmail@web21312.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:26:06AM -0800, Hein Hermans wrote:
> Hi there,
>=20
> Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 4.5 (though I noticed
> the smae problem on 4.3 and 5.1) on a Presario 1230
> laptop. During installation and afterwards I noticed a
> slow keyboard response on the console. Scrolling of
> long output works perfect or comparable to a Linux
> installation. Only while typing (no system load) I
> notice a minimal time lap between pressing the key and
> the showing up of the character on the screen. Which
> becomes irritating when typing in longer text.=20
>=20
> Hoping that someone can shed some light on this, and
> thanks for reading.
>=20
> Kind regards,
>=20
> Hein

Could your problem possibly be related to the key repeat rate?  If so,
try doing:

$ kbdcontrol -r fast

It will go faster than this if you like.  man kbdcontrol(1).

Nathan
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