[mythtv-users] Long delays with remote occasionally

Allen Edwards allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Sun Apr 26 13:35:14 UTC 2009


On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Josh Mastronarde <jmastron at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you compile yourself, the patch is available in the ticket I filed:
> >>  http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6406.
> >>
> >> Josh
> >
> > Wow...I had seen this thread before and didn't really follow it.  I
> > started encountering these remote/keyboard delays over the last few
> > days after installing some upgrades on my Gentoo frontend...the only
> > really significant one being an upgrade from xorg-server 1.3 to 1.5.3.
> >
> > I don't know if the upgrade was related or just a coincidence, but
> > since that I've occasionally seen exactly what other describe.  I'll
> > go to pause a recording (for example) and nothing would happen.  Like
> > others here I first thought it was a remote issue until one time when
> > it occurred when I was able to try the keyboard and discovered that
> > the keyboard IO seemed to be blocked (or buffered or whatever) as
> > well.  It can last as long as 30 seconds or more before suddenly
> > reacting to the input.
> >
> > In my case this was always when watching DVB-T mpeg
> > recordings....pretty much the only thing I use the internal player
> > for.
> >
> > Last night I added your patch to the custom ebuild on my frontend and
> > recompiled.  I'll see how it goes.  Quite an amazing find on your
> > part...thanks!
> >
> > Tom
> >
>
> Bummer...I had my remote delay for like 20 seconds tonight even with
> that patch installed.  It happened watching a recording of Grey's
> Anatomy off ABC.  Not as bad perhaps as the times it occurred the
> other day...but annoying.
>
> I'm actually running 0.21-fixes rev 18314, but that change set 19222
> shouldn't have any effect for me.  I'm running fluxbox and
> xscreensaver.
>
> Has anyone else seen any connection between this issue and xorg-server
> 1.5?  I never had this issue before.  I'm almost tempted to restore
> the frontend to it's pre-graded state, but I really hate to.
>
> Tom
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I understand there are two issues and you need to have a fixes version as
suggested.  It completely killed what was a very annoying problem for me.

Allen
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