[mythtv-users] probelem with imon + kernel 2.6.35 (ubuntu maverick) + arrow keys

Seth Daniel mythtv.org at sethdaniel.org
Tue Dec 14 03:34:08 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:37:44PM -0800, Seth Daniel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded to Ubuntu Maverick from Lucid.  Everything went fine except
> that my remote stopped working.  I eventually discovered that lirc had
> been moved into the kernel, module names had changed, and, to use my
> iMON remote I now needed to use the devinput lirc driver.  So after
> reconfiguring lirc and using the new event names in my .lircrc my remote
> works.  But I have a secondary problem: the arrow keys always emit 5
> events.  e.g. I press the down button I get 5 KEY_DOWN events (confirmed
> using irw).   
> 
> My first thought was that I could configure the new imon module to deal
> with this.  modinfo shows a number of options for the imon module.  I
> don't have any real idea what all the options actually do, but I tried
> many different combinations.  One thing was consistent: I had to have
> pad_stabilize=0 or I received no arrow events at all.  I tried with
> nomouse=0 and 1 and I tried various pad_thresh settings (from 1 to 1000)
> with no change in behavior.
> 
> My second thought was that I could deal with this issue in my lircrc
> file.  I played with the repeat and delay options (again with numbers
> from 0 to 1000), but nothing I tried seemed to work.  Frankly I'm not
> certain I understand exactly what repeat and delay do.  I read the doc
> on the lirc website and I felt less sure of what they did from when I
> started.
> 
> I believe the old pad2keys patch for imon used to 'fix' this problem.
> I'm probably remembering incorrectly.  There have been several patches
> over the years that I've applied to the lirc source and I don't remember
> the reasons for the patches anymore.  This is the first ubuntu release
> where I have been able to get my remote working without patching and
> using dkms to build a new lirc imon module...with the exception of this
> arrow key repeat issue.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?

I saw what appeared to be similar problems with other remotes in at
least one other thread.  The solution(s) were the same: edit the
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf file and play with the 'gap' entry. 

I did this, but no luck.  I tried values for gap from 1 to 100000 (the
gap entry comes with a value of 132799 in the lircd.devinput.conf
file) and my arrow keys still generate multiple events with each press.  
KEY_UP and KEY_DOWN always generate 5 events, KEY_LEFT generates six
events, and KEY_RIGHT generates seven events.  None of them are tagged
as repeat events.

-- 
seth /\ sethdaniel.org


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list