[mythtv-users] LIRC & Packard Bell receiver woes with Minimyth

[Sean Goodpasture]

I've got a couple FE's and a main BE working fine with this receiver.
They are all running Mythdora though.

I wanted to try out minimyth for a bedroom FE (quiet with no hard drive!).

Hardware:
ECS P4M800 m7 motherboard
P4 2.8
Geforce 6200 with svideo out
booting off a memory stick

Everything is working great, other than getting the remote to work.

Here's my dmesg output from the minimyth box (dmesg | grep lirc):
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
lirc_serial: Manually using active high receiver
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0

And on my main frontend (using the same receiver)
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0


I had to force the minimyth box to the active high (it detected it low
-- didn't work then either).

The applicable parts of my minimyth.conf:
MM_LIRC_DRIVER='serial'
MM_LIRC_DEVICE='/dev/lirc0'
MM_LIRC_KERNEL_MODULE='lirc_serial'
MM_LIRC_KERNEL_MODULE_OPTIONS='irq=3 io=0x2f8 sense=0'
MM_LIRC_FETCH_LIRCD_CONF='yes'
MM_LIRC_FETCH_LIRCRC='yes'


When I run irw, I get no response.
I tried switching to the 8250 module, no joy there. Tried changing
irq/port/etc. in the bios, with no luck.

if I rmmod lirc_serial and modprobe 8250, my serial port is
recognized/configured ok. I even copied over the setserial program
from my mythdora frontend and tried to make it work exactly the same
with no luck.

I *really* want this to work, but I'd hate to have to go spend more
money on a USB receiver/remote...

Thanks!

Sean