[mythtv-users] Long delays with remote occasionally

[Josh Mastronarde]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Allen Edwards
> <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I understand there are two issues and you need to have a fixes version as
>> suggested.  It completely killed what was a very annoying problem for me.
>> Allen
>
> Other than the Josh's patch, what's the other issue?  Change set 19222
> itself is only related to gnome screensaver.  Is it something other
> than that?

The 3 issues I know of that can cause delays are:

1)  If you have an Nvidia card, the following like should be in
Section "Device":
        Option      "UseEvents" "True"

2)  gnome-screensaver/myth interaction issues that were addressed in r19222

3)  The file probe issue fixed in my patch

Do you have #1 possibly?  There are quite possibly other causes, and
maybe a more central root issue that these all just exacerbate by
causing CPU load at just the right time, but the above (1 and 3
anyway; I never had to isolate #2) eliminated the issues for me.  I
agree with others that, in general, it's better to move to the latest
-fixes rev and work from there if possible (I do it with 2 root
partitions I alternate, so I can install Linux and Myth clean and copy
over what I need, while still keeping the original snapshot to revert
to if needed)

Josh