[mythtv-users] Foiled by lirc - yet again

[David Brodbeck]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Shawn Collins wrote:
> Hopefully your remote isn't as sensitive as mine.  I continually get  
> phantom key presses.  EG: I press left once, but the code gets  
> resent or repeated every so often.  The only workaround I know is to  
> have a key on the remote that doesn't have a binding and press that  
> when this situation arises.  Then the unknown key just keeps getting  
> resent.

This may not actually be a remote issue.  I've had this problem with  
"normal" USB keyboards in Linux, also.  It seems to me that during  
heavy CPU load Linux will sometimes miss key-release events from USB  
HID devices.