[mythtv-users] ATI Remote Wonder - SUCCESS

[Mercury Morris]

It turns out that lirc DOES INTERFERE with ati_remote,
at least it does on my MythTV machine.

After moving the ATI Remote's USB plugin from machine
to machine and seeing each one work, it was clear that the
MythTV machine just had to be different.  So, I looked at
how it booted up and what was turned on as part of the
boot process.

Lirc was brought up during boot, so I turned that off.
Lirc was part of modprobe.conf, so I commented that out.

But those two steps are not enough to get rid of the conflict.

After the system comes up, I had to perform the following steps
before the ATI Remote would work:

    rmmod lirc_atiusb
    rmmod lirc_dev
    rmmod ati_remote
    modprobe ati_remote

and the order of the commands is important, too.

So, once all that was taken care of, the remote worked.
It works so well that punching ChannelUP/DOWN includes
the satellite dish right after the highest-numbered broadcast
channel and right before the lowest (channel 2).

Now, I just have to track down where lirc_atiusb and lirc_dev
are getting installed and stop that from happening.

Thanks for the suggestions and ideas.  They helped lead me
to the right place to get the ATI Remote working.

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MM