[mythtv-users] Fedora 12 to Fedora 14: lirc / mce remote issue

[R. G. Newbury]

On 12/15/2010 12:00 PM, Michael Rice wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com>  wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Michael Rice wrote:
>>
>>> I did a fresh install of Fedora 14 on one of my front end boxes and
>>> it went pretty smoothly.
>>>
>>> There is one annoyance with the remote that I didn't have on Fedora 12.
>>> When I press a key on the remote I have to hold it down (for about a
>>> second) to get it to register where before a quick press would work fine.
>>> Anyone know how what would be causing this or how to fix this?
>>>
>>> Here are the details of what I did:
>>>
>>> lirc from fedora repos only:
>>>
>>> [root at mythfrontend2 ~]# rpm -qa | grep lirc
>>> lirc-0.8.7-1.fc14.i686
>>> lirc-libs-0.8.7-1.fc14.i686
>>>
>>> [root at mythfrontend2 ~]# uname -a
>>> Linux mythfrontend2 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Oct 22
>>> 15:27:53 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Try the latest kernel out of koji. There was a buffer-parsing issue
>> that would manifest similar to what you're reporting in the F14 GA
>> kernel.
>>
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.35.8/55.fc14/
>
> Thanks for the advice about the kernel problem.  I waited until a new kernel
> appeared in the fedora updates repo and updated last night to
> 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE.  The slow response issue seems to be gone
> but it looks like I have the opposite issue now.  A very quick push of a
> button most of the time creates two key presses.  It seems to be buffering
> keys and sending them out on the next push.  For example here is the
> output of irw when I push Up after I had pushed several Downs:
>
> [root at mythfrontend2 ~]# irw
> 0001006c00000001 00 Down devinput
> 0001006700000001 00 Up devinput
> 0001006700000001 01 Up devinput
>
> So pushing Up after a Down does an Down/Up combo  :(
>
> Any idea how to fix that?  I added repeat = 0 to .lircrc but that
> doesn't help me.
> It doesn't seem to be a repeat problem but an extra key problem.

I have noticed this too, on 2.6.35.9 with Fedora 14
I have to be very careful to press quickly and lightly on any key, or I 
get multiples...trying for a 2 minute jump, I get 22 or 222 reported.

Makes it VERY difficult when some keys are dying and do not want to 
respond at all!



              R. Geoffrey Newbury