[mythtv-users] Mandrake 9.1 -- Serial port problems

[John Klimek]

I swear my computer has ghosts in it....   the OLD rca.pl script is now
working me.

I've tried that script a hundred times without any luck.

My RCA receiver (RCA DRD430RG) supposedly has a "New command set" that has
different commands than the older RCA receivers.  Somebody from this list
sent it over to me because he modified it.

I don't understand, I feel so stupid.

It's working now.  In fact, EVERYTHING is working now.

I'm using Mandrake 9.1 on my backend server (Athlon 750 MHz, 256mb RAM, 20
GB HD, Win-TV Go Card).

Would it be worth it for me to remove Mandrake and install Gentoo from
scratch (eg. stage 1)?

Thanks again for ALL your help.  You have been INCREDIBLY helpful.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Olszewski" <ray at comarre.com>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mandrake 9.1 -- Serial port problems


> Responses inline.
>
> At 10:31 PM 6/12/2003 -0400, John Klimek wrote:
>
> >Believe it or not, I went out and bought a DE9F connector (from
RadioShack)
> >and a new RJ22 cable.  The DE9F connector was the solder-kind, so I
soldered
> >the new RJ22 cable to the DE9F connector (using the regular pinouts...
the
> >same ones that I tried the very first time) and it worked FIRST TRY.
> >
> >Apparantly I had a bad RJ22 cable or my DE9F connector was bad.  Either
way,
> >I was thrilled when I finally saw it working correctly.
> >
> >I'm going to write-up a detailed HOW-TO and put it online to help out new
> >people trying to make cables.  You were a HUGE help and I thank you very,
> >very much.
> >
> >My new problem however, seems complicated (like everything for me).
> >
> >I'm somewhat familar with unix/linux/perl, etc.  /dev/cua1 is a symlink
for
> >/dev/cua/1 which is a character device.
>
> With what permissions? I'm not up on the ins and outs of devfs setups, but
> I recall seeing on this list some reports of permissions problems with the
> v4l devices on such setups. So once again, make sure the userid you run
the
> script as (probably mythtv) has read and write access to /dev/cua/1 . (One
> quick way to do this is to try running "setserial /dev/cua1" as that user
> (you appear to be running it as root beloe).
>
> >Setserial tells me that everything
> >is fine  (setserial /dev/cua1):
> >
> >[root at linux sofakng]# setserial /dev/cua1
> >/dev/cua1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x2f8, IRQ:3
>
> Yes, this part is fine.
>
> >2f8 and IRQ3 are the correct settings as well (I verified in BIOS and Win
> >XP).
> >
> >Also, /dev/ttyS1 exists, but is not a character file.  setserial also
tells
> >me that device is fine.
> >
> >I'm using a modified RCA.pl script (its modified to support the new rca
> >command set), and when I run it from the command line I get this:
> >
> >[root at linux sofakng]# ./new_rca.pl 354
> >354 SEND:  0xFA [u] 0x46 [F] 0x1 [] 0x62 [b]
> >    RECV: 0xF1[ERR 1]
>
> Since you are using a modified script that I have not seen, I can't
comment
> meaningfully on its operation. You might want to send it for examination
> (you can send it to me offlist if it is too long for reasonable posting on
> the list).
>
> >Like I said, my cable works PERFECT under XP (DTVCON), so I know that
> >everybody is setup correctly.  Linux obviously does not like me
however...
>
> Well ... since the script was modified, I do wonder it is is setting the
> right serial-port settings (bps and other stuff) for the "new" RCA box. I
> had assumed that those settings were OK since they obviously worked for
the
> script's author with his equipment.
>
> [old stuff deleted]
>
>
>
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