Linux console keyboard delay trouble

From: Peter (somewhere_at_nospam.org)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:59:42 +0100

Hi,

For my current application I need to switch off the keyboard delay.
According to the manpage of kbdrate the delay is a range between 250 and
1000 ms for Intel platforms. Clearly the delay cannot be lower than 250
ms; the manpage claims this is hardware dependent.

With X however it IS possible to switch it off; for example, using the
Gnome Keyboard Configuration Panel, it can be switched off completely,
so, when pressing a key, the key will start repeating it's ASCII value
without a delay after the first character. I guess this is the case
since Xterm, GnomeTerminal and friends are some kind of terminal emulation.

Is there a way to do the same thing on a plain Linux console?

Regards

Peter

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