Re: Serial IR receiver problem

[Erk <mrman_man@xxxxxxx>]

> I suspect that the USB driver (or possibly the Skype application)
> is preventing the serial port driver from emptying the 16550A FIFO
> before it wraps, resulting in lost characters. At 115200, the serial
> port driver must service a 16550A almost once every millisecond to
> avoid character loss. What speed is your IR interface? Do you have
> any flow control? Can you run it at a lower speed to see if that
> helps?

Thanks for your response Andrew. I have tried different settings in
winlirc, among them the speed of the com port. It didn't have any
effect on my problem.