The keyboard rate stuff would make some PPro boxes go mad.
Stick this in your rc.local instead:
/sbin/kbdrate -s -r 30 -d 250
> This is irritating, since some reflexes (such as going up and down
> with an editor) don't work so well any more. 2.0.30 behaves normally.
> The slowdown happens both from a virtual console and from X.
If you have a sassy Focus 9000, you can just hit Turbo-F12 ;-)
> Was this done on purpose, or is this a bug?
I'm pretty sure it was on purpose, due to the PPro problems.
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