Holding a key - repeats unstable

[Frank U. <Fra...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have been using lirc on a stand alone MP3 server for several years.
Now, the hardware is failing and I got a new board (well, "new old" one.
P3@600 MHz..). Lirc generally works again, but I have trouble with key
repetition.
Single keypresses are always recognized. If I hold a key, however, lirc
seems to loose it after a few repetition events and does not give me
continous key events. Sometimes I get two/three messages from lirc,
sometimes up tp 10. But a the end, it always failes to detect that I am
still pressing the key. I can release the key and press/hold it again
and then there again it detects a few repeats.
So, this seems to be a drift somewhere, the ir recognition seems to get
out of sync or so.

I have tried with lirc 4.4, 5.1, latest 2.4 kernel and 2.6.19.2. No change.

Anybody have an idea how I can get this to work? Maybe some problems
with the mainboard or some missing settings in lirc?

I am sorry, if this already has been answered on this list, but I could
not find a related topic. If anybody could point me in the right
direction, I am very grateful.

Thanks, Fran