Linux, keyboard "delay" prevents full speed

[vputz]

Here's a curious one.

Running xmame.x11, the keyboard (both the actual ps/2 keyboard and my minipac-based CP on USB) cannot generate events fast enough to play Joust.  I'm not sure what effect it's having on other games.

In other words, I can click as fast as I want, but there's no way to flap fast enough to gain height.

The interesting thing is that if I use a gamepad, I *can* generate events fast enough.

So I'm curious--what am I missing?  I think it has to be fixable through X somehow, but I just don't know how...

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[eu4ria]

which distro are u using ?
You will probably need to look in you x config files. Its so long since I have played with X its hard to remmeber some of the names...

GUI's are for wimps  

[vputz]

which distro are u using ?

Debian unstable/testing mix.

You will probably need to look in you x config files. Its so long since I have played with X its hard to remmeber some of the names...

That's what I'm guessing, but I'm having trouble figuring what to change.  About the only options I've seen have been the delay between pressing a key and autorepeat and the delay between autorepeat signals, neither of which sounds like it'll work.  I'll probably try them anyway at some point.

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