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Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/kbdrate.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/kbdrate.8 | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/kbdrate.8 b/sys-utils/kbdrate.8 index 3fef3395..88c6cbc1 100644 --- a/sys-utils/kbdrate.8 +++ b/sys-utils/kbdrate.8 @@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ Not all keyboards have the rates mapped in the same way. Setting the repeat rate on the Gateway AnyKey keyboard does not work. If someone with a Gateway figures out how to program the keyboard, please send mail to faith@cs.unc.edu. +.PP +The above description is for i386 machines, and writing to some io port +won't work on other architectures. Nowadays +.B kbdrate +first tries if the KDKBDREP ioctl is available. If it is, it is used, +otherwise the old method is applied. + .SH FILES .I /etc/rc.local .br |