On 4/1/2010 9:36 PM, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:50 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 4/1/2010 11:15 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2010-04-01 18:02, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
So, I am being advised to stop using the ir_kbd_i2c module and use the older lirc_i2c module instead. (also according to the LIRC website I am suppose to install the lirc_dev module also) Since I am not an expert on managing kernel modules, my research leads me to believe I use the following commands to accomplish this -
rmmod ir_kbd_i2c insmod lirc_i2c insmod lirc_dev
or should I use
modprobe -r ir_kbd_i2c modprobe lirc_i2c modprobe lirc_dev
Not sure what the difference between these commands are exactly... And tinkering with the kernel kinda makes me nervous!
At the very worst the system would crash, and I doubt it. At normal worst, if things go bad you could loose use of the remote, which is no big deal, and perhaps have to reboot to recover to a "known status". Changes are not permanent, just the current runtime. Fear not :-)
The first group of commands remove/load kernel modules (from memory) directly, no questions asked. The second group ask a few questions (of the config files) and may load/unload other modules it thinks are needed to complete the request.
More in the respective manual pages.
About your main question, how to get the remote working, sorry, no idea.
Thanks Carlos for replying, I always feel it is a good idea to get second opinions before I do something that I don't fully understand...
So I took the plunge and removed the kernel module ir_kbd_i2c and installed the two kernel modules lirc_i2c and lirc_dev. Changed the config file /etc/sysconfig/lirc manually to use the lirc_i2c module and restarted the lirc daemon...
No Joy! Now nothing from my remote is recognized anymore and I believe the rest of my lirc configuration files are correct... So I am stuck! and dunno what to try next... Any lirc gurus around?
Hi Marc, I've been following your trials across a couple of lists. I have the PVR-150, and _did_ actually have the remote working, under both oS11.1 and Ubuntu9.04,, however it ceased functioning about the same time on both (still works fine in Windows though, so it's not hardware). I have a whacked idea that I might just try. I have a copy of KnoppMYTH that kicks, I'm gonna boot it and see if the remote works.
Make sure that you have the LIRC tools installed, the one that will tell you you're talking to the card is irw which is run in a shell environment. I was involved in this discussion here on this list in the last year with someone (you?) and got back to the thread after some months to tell how I initially got LIRC set up, it did not involve using YaST at all, but a lot of info from Ubuntu forums.
Mike - Yes I believe you and I talked last year about this LIRC issue when I was trying to get it up an running then.. I gave up for quite awhile, but decided to upgrade to SuSE11.2 and see if anything got better... It didn't, but a couple of guys over in the mythTV mail list have now gotten me over this hurdle. Using YaST to try an set up my remote really screwed things up, and apparently the kernel module ir_kbd_i2c is just not ready for prime time either. So we backed it out of the kernel and went back to using the two modules lirc_i2c and lirc_dev instead. Then with some reconfiguring of the /etc/sysconfig/lirc file, we managed to get the system to recognize button presses from my Hauppauge remote. I think someone really dropped the ball with this release and didn't do a lot of testing to make sure the new model they are headed for will work, nor provide an easy way to back down to the way remotes have been working in the past, in case it didn't... Between this issue and sound issues, so far it has been pretty painful getting my media center back up and running, but I am making progress! There are some good helpers around if you can find em! Let me know if I can help you... Marc..