[mythtv-users] New MCE 2005 Remote

[James Oltman]

I went the cowards way out.  I bought a Lite-On SK-7100 (?) wireless
IR keyboard.  I will be programming it into my massive Sony RM-2100
remote (big sucker with touchpad screen, like a big tricorder).  Just
been to lazy to do it now that I can watch video's again on my TV.

On 5/31/05, Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> James,
> 
> I also have a new style MCE2005 remote  There are several different
> vendors that provide these remotes, so I sent in an extra vendor ID
> for my remote to the person who did the patch allowing MCE2005
> remote's drivers to be built.  His patch hasn't actually hit the lirc
> patches because it apparantly can't coexist with the MCE2004 remote
> driver.
> 
> Now, I ran into the same blockade you did that it semi works, but not
> nearly enough to be satisfactory.  What did you do about it?  I was
> told to try a pre-emptive kernel, but that just jeopardized the
> stability of my AMD64 system pretty badly.  Did you find something
> else that works?
> 
> Mario
> 
> On 5/31/05, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have that remote and I had a HUGE struggle with it.  I am using FC3
> > on my FE and was using kernel 2.6.10-1.770 from ATRPMS.  The
> > pre-packaged lirc from ATRPMs didn't include the necessary driver for
> > the newer style MCE remotes.  I had to find the corrent source code
> > for the ONE driver and compile a version of lirc against my current
> > kernel.  It semi-worked.  I came to find out that my motherboard/usb
> > controller (ohci I believe) had an issue with that kernel.  It would
> > cause the receiver to work SOMETIMES but not often enough.  After
> > reboots it would disappear.  I was told that a newer kernel should fix
> > the issue.  I noticed last week that Axel had upgraded the kernel on
> > his site so I went about the process of upgrading and in the middle, I
> > kinda fubar'd my setup.  So I built from scratch.  I don't know if
> > lirc has been upgraded with this newer driver or not.  Axel has told
> > me he only builds "official" releases of packages (lirc, nvidia, etc).
> >  He doesn't include fixes.  I will probably try again to get my MCE
> > 2005 remote working.  It might just be better if I went to GENTOO on
> > my FE so that I compile everything from scratch just to make sure I
> > can get exactly what I want in.  That is a pretty huge step though
> > from FC3.  Good luck!
>