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

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On 2010-12-15, at 19:33, Michael Rice <mikerice1969 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 15, 2010, at 4:16 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>> ...
>>>>> 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!
>>>
>>> Please give this kernel build a spin once its completed. It
>>> fixes all the issues I've been able to reproduce locally...
>>>
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2667815
>>
>> Bah. New ARM-specific build option made the build abort. Try 2:
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2667844
>
> Seems to have the same problem for me.
>
> [root at mythfrontend2 ~]# uname -a
> Linux mythfrontend2 2.6.35.10-67.fc14.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 15
> 22:45:07 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Again the irw output from pressing a single Up after several Downs:
>
> [root at mythfrontend2 ~]# irw
> 0001006c00000001 00 Down devinput
> 0001006700000001 00 Up devinput

And that is what you are looking for, unless I Missed something.