Improving the Fedora boot experience
Nils Philippsen
nils at redhat.com
Thu Mar 14 14:35:58 UTC 2013
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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