>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".

  XFree86 3.1.2 is X11R6, not 6.1.  There seems to be a difference in behavior
between them, though I haven't tried both under NetBSD (I was using R6 under
SunOS).  Also, as I pointed out previously, autorepeat _does_ work, it's just
that the initiation-delay timing is way off.

--Jim Bernard