[mythtv-users] 1212 and channel changing

Ben Dailey ben at inspiredtechs.com
Tue Sep 1 13:51:09 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Norm Dressler wrote:
>
>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday 31 August 2009 22:40:51 Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> [...hdpvr...]
>>>
>>>> Just committed a patch that make IR reception behave correctly for me:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-lirc.git/?a=commitdiff;h=563c28f1e6725c9039c9a0df0b3d5f2161cf38ca
>>>>
>>>> So now I've moved on to blasting. It actually pretty much Just Works
>>>> right off the bat, once you grab the appropriate blasting lirc config
>>>> file from here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=24
>>>>
>>>> (specifically, http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/lmilk/lircd.conf )
>>>>
>>>> Well, it blasts anyway, and the commands are being picked up. However,
>>>> irsend still thinks it failed to send. The driver is a fault here, its
>>>> saying it failed after two tries, when in fact, it was successful both
>>>> times. I'm using an mceusb receiver to pick up the transmitted commands
>>>> and it picks up two transmissions of everything, but they're at least
>>>> the *correct* signals. Just need to fix up the driver so it doesn't
>>>> think its failed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ...and now blasting is also working quite nicely for me.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-lirc.git/?a=commitdiff;h=f50dd6022ab7cb268aaa662738c21a95dcd8cb57
>>>
>>> Only thing really left to fix is the hang when trying to unload the
>>> lirc_zilog driver, but that's probably not particularly relevant to
>>> most folks.
>>>
>>>
>> Jarod, do you have some quick steps that we can take to check out your
>> hard work?  I for one would like to reduce the amount of hardware so if I
>> can get rid of my IR receiver then great.
>
> So how quick one can throw something together to test this depends on
> several factors. If you're running Fedora 11, there's a binary kernel
> package sitting in the Fedora build system that has all the necessary bits
> included. If you're running an upstream-ish 2.6.31-rc kernel, the bits in my
> git tree will build and *hopefully* work, but I've not actually tested them
> there. I did most of my debugging and testing on a 2.6.30 kernel, which is
> built using the lirc bits from my git tree, with the 2.6.31-specific i2c
> changes backed out. Oh, and this also requires some minor patching of the
> hdpvr driver, regardless of kernel version at the moment.
>
> Long story short, Fedora users can simply install the kernel here:
>
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.30.5/45.fc11/
>
> Then slap the firmware image and lircd.conf from blushingpenguin in
> /lib/firmware and /etc respectively, and go to town.
>
> Other distros, particularly those with kernels earlier than 2.6.30... Well,
> you've got some work ahead of you, since I don't know what form of hdpvr
> driver or lirc drivers are already present... For 2.6.30, the three patches
> here are what are included in the Fedora kernel build I did:
>
> http://wilsonet.com/jarod/junk/hdpvr-ir/
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com

Jarod,

Do you know if Janne has any plans to add these patches to his
repository at http://hg.jannau.net/? Or have you submitted them to
upstream v4l-dvb? Thanks for the great work and I am looking forward
to getting everything tested soon.

Thank You,
Ben Dailey
ben at inspiredtechs.com


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