New laptop - weird key repeat issue

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:31:00 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>Googling has brought no relief; does anyone have any pointers?

Which of the hints, you already found by googling, did you already test
and what happens when you gave them a go? Can we assume that you already
checked the usual suspects, such as 'xset r off'? And when you checked
with 'xev' there was nothing unusual?