In message <9605281211.AA06044@tater.Mines.EDU>, "James E. Bernard" writes:
>
>>One minor problem:  I built X11R6.1 straight from the X Consortium
>>distribution, and there is no keyboard repeat in the X server, even though
>>xset says that it is turned on!  This is very annoying.  X11R6.1 includes

I used the XFree86 3.1.2 source tree, and things worked perfectly. I just
changed the list of servers, removing the SVGA ones and turned on the options
for XSunMono, etc. No problems whatsoever with key repeat. I don't use any
special flags, but when I run "xset q", the autorepeat bitmap is all ones.
This seems to be necessary in addition to leaving the overall autorepeat
setting as "on".

>  One other thing I've noticed is that the beep function sometimes makes
>exceedingly short, almost non-existent, beeps.  Other times it seems more
>or less normal.
>
>--Jim Bernard
>

I do get this problem, but I also find the beep way too loud on an ELC.
I just use visual bell in xterms, and do "xset b 0". 

If anyone feels the urge to try the XFree86 XSunMono on any other sparc,
let me know. It's only 1.4 MB, or 550Kb gzipped.

--Charles Lepple
clepple@tjhsst.edu