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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience
From:       Nils Philippsen <nils () redhat ! com>
Date:       2013-03-14 14:35:58
Message-ID: 1363271758.12637.28.camel () gibraltar ! str ! redhat ! com
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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
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