The keyboard suffers from atrocious key bounce, as you will probably have noticed by the time you get this far.

Method 1
Use "AccessX" to define the bounce delay:

1. Obtain the tarball and follow the installation instructions given at:

http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/accessx/freewareaccessx.html

2. Add the following lines to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession after the section where it runs all the system xinitrc shell scripts:

# inserted to prevent key bounce

ax +bouncekeysax -timeoutax bouncedelay 5# end inserted lines
(This is for RedHat 8.0: other distros may be different, but essentially you need to find a file from which scripts are run every time the X-server starts up).


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Method 2
In file /etc/X11/XF86Config, set the Xkbdisable function as follows:

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
Option "XkbDisable"

This works more reliably than Method 1, but you will lose some keyboard functionality, specifically anything invoked by the AltGr key.