[mythtv-users] Trouble with VFD

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Fri Mar 19 04:00:26 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Eric Yanush <yanush2e at uregina.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I having alot of trouble getting an antec veris elite vfd/ir combo to work
>> under ubuntu karmic.
>> I can get the ir portion to function with no problems, but cannot get any
>> sign of life from the vfd.
>> it has a device id of 0x0044
>>
>> After configuring lirc and lcdproc I end up with a dmesg output of :
>>
>> [   21.408199] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
>> [   21.408203] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2
>> [   21.656487] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
>> [   21.656490] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #1
>> [   22.279698] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
>> [   22.279701] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #1
>> [   22.520654] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>> [   22.780632] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
>> [   22.780635] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #5
>> [   22.903530] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
>> [   22.903532] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2
>> [   23.277822] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
>> [   23.277826] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2
>> [   23.778395] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
>> [   23.778399] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #5
>>
>>
>> if I try the echo 'Hello mythtv... command with any combination of lcdproc
>> and lirc running, with the lirc_imon driver loaded i get:
>>
>> -bash: /dev/lcd0: Permission denied
>>
>> run either as user or as root.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> -32 is -EPIPE... No clue wtf would trigger that. I have the exact same
> hardware in my own myth frontend box, works perfectly. What lcdproc
> driver are you trying to use to drive it?
>
> I have tried both lcdproc 0.5.2 and 0.5.3, with the imon driver, and the
> lirc modules lirc_imon and lirc_dev

I got nothin' then, that combo works perfectly here. Can you verify
the device isn't faulty by spinning it up under Windows?

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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