[KLUG Members] Key repeat

[Bill]

My uptime is inching, well, up. :-) 

[bill@a bill]$ uptime
  6:12pm  up 6 days,  1:32,  2 users,  load average: 0.54, 0.31, 
0.22

I am extremely reluctant to reboot at this point, but have 
noticed that somewhere along the line I have no automatic 
keystroke repitition. 

Is there a way to add keystroke repitition at this point or am I 
doomed to life of peck, peck, peck, peck, peck?

I am running Mandrake 8.0 with Xfree86 4.0.2(?) and usually use 
KDE although I have a number of other GUI's at hand. I was told 
that Linux only has to be rebooted for hardware and kernel 
upgrades. If that is true, how do I accomplish this feat?

Bill
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