[mythtv] New Problem when using remote

[Cedar McKay]

holy moly, I was in the middle of drafting a similar plea for help too! 
Is this coincidence? My problem cropped up yesterday too.  I was about 
to send the list a very similar plea (see below). But the fact that Rob 
had the exact same problem on the same day got me and my friend to 
thinking. I set back my clock to December 31st and holy crap, it works 
again! Sadly I have no skills, but hopefully this will get someone who 
knows more than I onto the right track to fixing this problem. My guess 
is this isn't mythtv, but rather a lirc/irxevent issue, but really I 
have no idea.

Cedar



here is the message I was drafting before rob wrote:
I don't expect anyone to be able to help me, but desperation does funny 
things. I have a RH8 system, and cvs from about 5 days ago. Everything 
was great for about 4 days (mythtv running constantly) and then 
suddenly when switching from live tv (using a remote), or a recording 
the frontend was not the front window (any terminal windows behind 
would now be on top), so lirc commands wouldn't work. If I click the 
frontend with a mouse it works again. The frustrating thing is that 
this was working great for days, then I did nothing, (not even quitting 
out of mythtv) and suddenly it stopped working.


What I've tried:
reboot
different user
kde and gnome
new cvs

I sort of suspect a lirc problem because if I hit the remote button 
mapped to the Esc key I see the problem, but If I hit the escape key on 
the keyboard I don't see the problem. Here is the lirc key map I use (I 
obviously use my "Record" button as my escape key):

begin
     prog = irxevent
     button = Record
     config = Key Escape CurrentWindow
end


On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 01:38  PM, Rob Chambers wrote:

> I am not sure why this just started yesterday, but now whenever I exit 
> live
> tv using the remote the mythfrontend gui does not regain focus. I 
> usually
> see the command shell I used to launch mythfrontend pop up in front, 
> but not
> always. In either case I need to click on the mythfrontend in order 
> for it
> to regain control.
>
> This only happens when leaving live tv using the remote it does not 
> occur
> leaving live tv using the keyboard. And as I stated above this is a new
> behavior. This system was not functioning in this way prior to 
> yesterday. I
> have been playing around trying to get mythfrontend to start 
> automatically
> using a script in the KDE autostart directory but I have removed the 
> script
> and I am still experiencing the same behavior.
>
> I am running with the following setup
>
> Software
> MythTV .07
> lirc 0.6.6
> nvtvout 0.4.2
> Mandrake 9 - autologin to KDE with user TV
>
> Hardware
> AMD 1800+
> ATI TV Wonder VE
> Homebuilt IR Receiver
>
> I appreciate any suggestions. Also if anyone has tips on autostarting
> mythfrontend with the above config it might save what little hair I 
> have
> left.
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
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