[mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

[Jim Oltman]

Since I used apt-get to install lirc and mythtv-suite, I take it that
is would be EXTREMELY difficult for me to compile this new driver into
lirc especially since I have never compiled anything in my entire life
(except for those 2 semesters in college compiling C code that barely
worked).  As I understand it, mythtv-suite already has the lirc-lib
included.  Is there a way around all this?  Does anyone know?  My
version of the mce_usb driver is listed as v0.2 but doesn't mention
anything about this Dan Conti.  Also, on ATRPMs it looks like Axel
last updated the lirc drivers on Mar 5th 12:27 CET.  Could you tell me
how you were able to get your MCE IR receiver up and working (assuming
I have the right driver).  What did you put in your
/etc/modprobe.conf?  I didn't have a /dev/lirc0 only a /dev/lircd so
in my rc.local I put these statements in:

ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
chmod 666 /dev/lirc0

/sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
/usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0  --output=/dev/lircd

Am I incorrect?  Should I be doing something different?  Thanks!


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:04:11 -0600, Jim Oltman <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since I used apt-get to install lirc and mythtv-suite, I take it that
> is would be EXTREMELY difficult for me to compile this new driver into
> lirc especially since I have never compiled anything in my entire life
> (except for those 2 semesters in college compiling C code that barely
> worked).  As I understand it, mythtv-suite already has the lirc-lib
> included.  Is there a way around all this?  Does anyone know?  My
> version of the mce_usb driver is listed as v0.2 but doesn't mention
> anything about this Dan Conti.  Also, on ATRPMs it looks like Axel
> last updated the lirc drivers on Mar 5th 12:27 CET.  Could you tell me
> how you were able to get your MCE IR receiver up and working (assuming
> I have the right driver).  What did you put in your
> /etc/modprobe.conf?  I didn't have a /dev/lirc0 only a /dev/lircd so
> in my rc.local I put these statements in:
> 
> ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> chmod 666 /dev/lirc0
> 
> /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0  --output=/dev/lircd
> 
> Am I incorrect?  Should I be doing something different?  Thanks!
> 
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:20:20 -0800 (PST), Joe Huffner <huffner at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Just an FYI for those of us who bought one of the
> > updated MCE remotes and receivers. I was checking out
> > the lirc mailing list and someone has update the
> > driver to include support. From what I can tell the
> > update has not been updated in CVS.
> >
> > I found the info at:
> > http://search.gmane.org/?query=mce&group=gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
> >
> > Basically what I did was overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c
> > in the drivers/lirc_mceusb directory with the source
> > found in the mailing liste. (I have attached the new
> > source file.) Then went through the install process
> > documented. I used version .7.0 of lirc.
> >
> > Please note, from what I have read and experienced,
> > there are some initialization problems. What seemed to
> > "fix it" was unplugging the receiver and plugging it
> > back in, until I no longer got an error message
> > stating the device did not initialize. You can check
> > this by running "tail -f /var/log/messages". Also, I
> > read that running kernel 2.6.11 seemed to fix the
> > initialization problem. However I cannot confirm this
> > as I am running Gentoo Dev Kernel 2.6.9-r9. Another
> > problem I am having is that I am getting non-stop
> > error messages stating:
> >
> > "usb 2-2: bulk timeout on ep1in"
> >
> > In fact, I was getting about 4 of those messages per
> > second. If/when I get time I am planning to upgrade to
> > 2.6.11 to see if this fixes the issue.
> >
> > -joe
>