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Old November 12th, 2007, 03:40 AM
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Another question

Using VMWare, I've got Fedora 7, 8, Redhat 9, and Ubunto CE installed. Ubunto drives me up the wall since it defaults to 1024x768 during the bootup/shutdown (I can deal with this, it's just annoying), RedHat 9 works fine for the most part (double clicking does not seem to work at this time) and is the OS I use for most class work but I would rather use either Fedora 7 or 8. The laptop has Vista on it and I'm not planning to wipe and install any Linux distro on it as I've got way to much homework to do with other classes to try and work in it.

Now the issue. Within VMWare and Fedora 7 and 8 the keyboard has a pretty ugly issue. For lack of a better word to describe it I'll call it a bounce. When typing it comes out something similar to this:

Thhhe quuickk bbbbbrrroownnnn ffooxxx

I've tried to modify the BIOS keyboard settings (within VMWare), and the .vmx file by adding the following:

keyboard.typematicMinDelay = "4000000"

Both to no avail in either version. Sometimes it'll work, most of the time it won't. Heck most of the time I've got an issue just with logging into my user account. A few times it seems to work then all of the sudden stops. Like it's working fine then all the sudden it acts up.

At first my inclination was that it's tied to the hardware clock as the keyboard controller is. There is an issue with VMWare and dual core CPU's explained in the following link, but I've performed the work around described here to no avail:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mic...xternalId=1227

and here:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mic...200%2030907926

The problem is that there is no keyboard issue in RedHat 9 or Ubuntu, only Fedora 7 and 8 so I'm pretty sure that all being said and done it's not a Linux, VMWare, or Windows issue, but rather a Fedora issue.
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Old November 12th, 2007, 04:33 AM
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Have you tried changing the repeat speed within Fedora?
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Old November 12th, 2007, 04:36 AM
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Actually I was looking for just that but haven't come across it yet. Where the heck is that?
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Old November 12th, 2007, 05:08 AM
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I believe there is a menu option under Settings > Keyboard, but I'm not sure that works under Fedora. If you are unable to find it, please post the contents of "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" here, and we can manually edit the file.
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Old November 12th, 2007, 05:28 AM
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Had to edit it a wee bit but it looks pretty much the same:


# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config


Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Default Layout"

Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0

InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "VMMouse" "CorePointer"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard0"

Driver "kbd"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "VMMouse"

Driver "vmmouse"

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"

EndSection



Section "Device"

Identifier "Videocard0"

Driver "vmware"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "Videocard0"

DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"

Viewport 0 0

Depth 24

EndSubSection

EndSection
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Old November 12th, 2007, 07:24 AM
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May have found and/or resolved this one.

Within the Control Center for KDE under Peripherals/Keyboard there is the option to disable the keyboard repeat. this I've done and thus far no problem. I can deal with any backspacing that needs to be done on a repeat basis. The settings by default though were as follows:

Delay - 660 msec
Rate - 25.0/s

The Delay goes as high as 5000 msec and the Rate as high as 50.0/s.

I'm not how this should be set in a session though but regardless, it seems to be working fine without it enabled.

I'm working with the term right now and haven't had any problems. Will let you know later tomorrow or later if this fixed it.
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Old November 12th, 2007, 04:46 PM
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Go figure. One single click of the button resolved something I spent the better part of time working on by trying to tweak it through modifying various settings and so forth. One single click....

So far not a single problem.
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