[mythtv-users] lirc and Fedora 15 IR is slow and sometimes missing keys

[David Watkins]

On 3 September 2011 22:33, Paul - subscriptions
<mylists at wilsononline.id.au> wrote:
> just upgraded to F15 from F13 where my Remote was working perfectly with
> MythTV, but after I've upgrade it seems to be active very erratic and
> missing keys.
> I did a quick test using 'irw' and it seems to be detecting the keys
> correctly but not consistantly.
> ie missing every other keypress which is a bit annoying if your scrolling
> etc...
>
> my kernel is :  2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686 #1 SMP
> is this a known issue?

Adding the "UseEvents" "True"  setting to my xorg.conf file made a
dramatic improvement to my remote's performance.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

<snip>

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Device0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
        Option      "UseEvents"  "True"                    <----
EndSection

<snip>