Can you try suppressing X startup (add "exit 0" to the top of /etc/init.d/gdm or similar), and see if the rate remains unchanged? I suspect that it might be changed when X sets the keyboard to raw mode
Can you try suppressing X startup (add "exit 0" to the top of /etc/init.d/gdm or
similar), and see if the rate remains unchanged? I suspect that it might be
changed when X sets the keyboard to raw mode