I've been doing some kernel tweaking (IR related) and this morning when I put my Empeg in my car, whenever I used the remote, there was a slight (50 ms or less) "delay" and skip in the music before the remote worked. Also, whenever I used the front panel buttons, they got "stuck" down, not physically, but one click of the button would keep it stuck in fast forward or rewind, whatever button I hit was "stuck" according to the kernel. I figured I had a bug, wouldn't be the first time...

So I bring it inside tonight, plug it in, and everything works FINE. No delay, no music skip, remote response is instantaneous, and the front panel buttons work FINE.

What the HECK is going on here? I can post the code I've been working on, but what could possibly be different that is making my kernel code behave totally different in the car? It's not like the code is looking at the power state, at least not that I've seen.

I'm stumped... Some of this kernel hacking is new to me, I'm a C systems programmer, but this is my first venture into Linux kernel land. Weird territory. :)

Incidentally what I'm trying to do is enable a "modifier key" function with one of the steering wheel remote's buttons, as I had stated in another post. It's working at home and in the car, but needs a couple tweaks. I don't get this goofy bug though!!!

-Tony
MkII #554