[mythtv-users] Long delays with remote occasionally

[Adam Skinner]

Upgrading to the new nvidia drivers didn't really solve anything. 

My problem is mostly when moving around the menus and when more disc
activity is happening.

Looking at:

http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html#bugs

Im wondering if its an interrupt issue. 

I have a pair of SATA drives in the box - using hdparm -u1 /dev/sdX
results in the following error msg:

HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Anoyone know how to unmask (or get the status of) an interrupt for a
SATA drive?




> 
> I've been experiencing this problem as well - I use a lirc serial 
> homebrew (ebay) on a system with combined be/fe and many other 
> frontends. 
> 
> The problem only seems to appear on the main be/fe machine and
> usually 
> when Im recording from DVB-S - the box also has DVB-T. Its hooked up
> to 
> an LCD with an intergrated Geforce 7XXX m/b. 
> 
> Im pretty sure its related to lirc as I also have an iPhone with myth 
> remote app - that uses telnet to talk to the box. This works fine and
> is 
> nice and responsive , whilst using the lirc_serial remote at the same 
> time - the frontend is v slow to respond. 
> 
> The BE/FE is a standard ubuntu intrepid build with myth compiled from 
> svn 0.21 fixes and is up to date. 
> 
> One of the previous posts on this topic talked about the lastest
> nvidia 
> driver fixing things - as soon as thats out for intrepid I will give
> it 
> a shot and post if it fixes things. (The only other problem I have is 
> with the nvidia driver hanging the system - so Im not installing 
> anything nvidia related by hand) 
> 
> Thankfully the other FEs dont have this problem - so the WAF is still 
> good :) 
> 
> 
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