[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 10.10 upgrade and remote control problems

[Bob Wiegand]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:36 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 11:20 AM, <bob_ml at stuffofmine.com> wrote:
> 
> > I upgraded my MythTV boxes to Ubuntu 10.10 and it caused problems with my
> > Streamzap remotes. It's possible that other remotes may have similar
> > issues.
> > 
> > The problem is that pressing the direction buttons are doubled - pressing
> > Down once causes moves two entries down in the menu. Other people have also
> > reported problems with this in the Ubuntu forums.
> > 
> > I don't totally understand everything that happening yet, but it looks
> > like there are some new drivers to handle IR remotes in the new kernel and
> > both the old lirc code and the new driver are both reporting the same
> > button press.
> > 
> > A work around for now is to comment out the direction buttons in the lirc
> > mapping file, but a better fix is needed.
> 
> 
> Look for "for protocol in rc5 nec rc6 jvc sony" in /etc/init.d/lirc (aka http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-dev/lirc/ubuntu/annotate/head:/debian/lirc.init.d) and add 'rc5-sz' to that proto list, and the double-presses will go away. You're decoding IR both in-kernel and in userspace w/lircd.
> 
> Please file a bug here:
> 
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc
> 
> Assign it to Mario Limonciello, and he'll take care of updating the initscript accordingly.
> 
> For reference, see also:
> 
> http://wilsonet.com/?page_id=95
> 

This fix didn't work. I added the value and rebooted the machine.
I still get double presses.

Bob