[mythtv] Bizzare repeating key behaviour
Bill Cizek
cizek at rcn.com
Tue Sep 25 14:08:30 UTC 2007
>> This is completely replicable. It happens almost every single time you
>> press a key. *But!* not when you're actually watching a program. While
>> you're watching TV, both the keypress and the lirc work just fine. (And
>> irw reverts to the normal "mythfrontend not running" behaviour.)
>>
>> Any clue what might be causing this? Is there some weird state the
>> mythfrontend menus (but not the playback) are putting the machine in?
>>
>
> One more thing. If I press keys on the remote (or on the actual
> keyboard) which aren't bound to anything in the menu (like "8" or
> "PAUSE"), the irw and libqt outputs are perfectly normal (just like when
> mythfrontend isn't running, or when it's doing playback). Only keys
> that cause something to happen in the menus exhibit this behaviour.
>
A while back I ran into a similar issue after and SVN upgrade -- phantom
double key presses in the menus only.
My problem was caused by lircmd (the LIRC mouse daemon). When I
stopped lircmd the problem went away.
HTH,
-Bill
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