Comment 81 for bug 278078

From Launchpad:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/264196/comments/43

I applied the patch from

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev/patch/?id=ece72ce9e97adae23b1932dc1334f63669196d56

to the intrepid version of xserver-xorg-input-evdev. After restarting X, keyboard delay and repeat could once again be set using the gnome "Keyboard Preferences".

I would also like to comment that neither the "xset" nor the "kbdrate" workarounds had any effect on the repeat rate on my system (a USB keyboard). I think (as others have said) that this bug should have a reasonably high priority: the inability to adjust the keyboard is a serious issue, and the workarounds only work in some cases.

(As a side issue: applying this patch to xserver-xorg-input-evdev exposed me to the other bug: Left, Down and End keys not repeating. This I could work around using xset as suggested by Ricardo above.)