[mythtv-users] IR keyboard / remote problems

Rick ve1gn at nb.sympatico.ca
Sun Feb 26 14:44:11 UTC 2006


Shanon Mulley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For the remote for my mythtv system, I decided on buying an IR
> keyboard, then training a programmable remote control from the IR
> keyboard.
> 
> Now this works fine, except for one minor point. Sometimes it gets
> "stuck". If I'm scrolling up through a list of things in mythtv, and
> then stop scrolling (with the remote), mythtv sometimes keeps
> scrolling through the list, until I do something else with the remote.
> 
> Now I managed to determine that this had something to do with the
> "Repeat Keys" option in linux (I'm using FC4), so I turned this off.
> Now it works fine (doesnt get stuck while I'm scrolling).
> 
> --but--
> 
> It is kind of annoying having to to press "up up up up up up" when I
> want to scroll through something, rather then just leaving my thumb on
> "up".
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you deal with it?
> 
> Thanks.

I did manage to fix this once, seems to me in control centre, keyboard 
screen I had to hit defaults and that fixed it up.  I'm not 100 percent 
sure of this fix though as it was quite a while ago.

cheers,
Rick


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