Just to tell ya I solved my problem by changing my mainboard. I went from the NVIDIA chipset to an AMD chipset & my problems were past tense :-)
dunno of course if you've got a NVIDIA chipset but it's worth a try to change the mainboard... Just me 2 cents GRTZ GoofY On 3/18/2010 12:54 PM, Mihaly wrote: > I'm seeing this problem too. Occasionally (maybe once a week) the > frontend stops responding to IR commands. I believe it is only > happening while watching video (ie. live tv or a recording, not while > the frontend is displaying menu). > > Running top shows nothing unusual (90%+ idle). I ran an strace on lircd > during a no-response, the output is below: > > ) = 1 (in [6]) > gettimeofday({1268909834, 784876}, NULL) = 0 > read(6, "\1\0\t\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8) = 8 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 784945}, NULL) = 0 > select(9, [4 5 6 8], NULL, NULL, {0, 20000}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 19998}) > gettimeofday({1268909834, 784993}, NULL) = 0 > read(6, "F\0\1\0\371\0\0\0"..., 8) = 8 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 785029}, NULL) = 0 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 785053}, NULL) = 0 > write(5, "00010046000000f9 00 chup DVICO\n"..., 31) = 31 > write(8, "00010046000000f9 00 chup DVICO\n"..., 31) = 31 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 785191}, NULL) = 0 > select(9, [4 5 6 8], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6]) > gettimeofday({1268909834, 912832}, NULL) = 0 > read(6, "\1\0\t\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8) = 8 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 912889}, NULL) = 0 > select(9, [4 5 6 8], NULL, NULL, {0, 20000}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 19992}) > gettimeofday({1268909834, 912951}, NULL) = 0 > read(6, "F\0\1\0\371\200\0\0"..., 8) = 8 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 912986}, NULL) = 0 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 913010}, NULL) = 0 > write(5, "00010046000000f9 01 chup DVICO\n"..., 31) = 31 > write(8, "00010046000000f9 01 chup DVICO\n"..., 31) = 31 > gettimeofday({1268909834, 913150}, NULL) = 0 > select(9, [4 5 6 8], NULL, NULL, NULL > > which kinda looks ok. Also, when I ran irw the button presses printed > ok as I clicked on the remote. > > So it looks like the remote& the IR software are ok. Somehow the > commands aren't getting through to the frontend, or the frontend isn't > listening. > > BTW, all software versions are as per Ubuntu 9.04. > > -- USB remote stops working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421276 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs