On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 18:05 +0100, Jan Dvořák wrote: > * Holding key on BIOS machines usually results in a long beep > sound and keyboard lockup. I never understood why. AIUI, key repetition and a very short buffer holding only a low number (16 I believe) of unprocessed key events. When the buffer filled up, the BIOS beeped and all following events were discarded. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel