[mythtv-users] LIRC and MythBuntu 10.10

[Norm Dressler]

On 04/16/2011 02:39 PM, Greg Hormann wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com>  wrote:
>> If you enabled it building the same way you did lirc_zilog, but didn't
>> add CONFIG_LIRC_SERIAL_TRANSMITTER=y, then you probably only built it
>> with RX support.
>>
>> I forgot to mention that if you want to build the lirc staging bits, you
>> need to do a 'make stagingconfig' in the root of the media_build source,
>> which should have taken care of that automatically, I think. However, I
>> don't know why we don't just always build in TX support, I should remove
>> that config option...
>>
> Actually I did both (with =m) to the .config file  That should work
> right?  I *did not* run stagingconfig
> ghormann at tvServer:~/mythtv_source/hd-pvr-driver/v4l-dvb-backport/media_build/v4l$
> grep SERIAL .config
> CONFIG_LIRC_SERIAL_TRANSMITTER=m
> CONFIG_LIRC_SERIAL=m
>
> I'm running a test right now with options lirc_zilog tx_only=1 as
> David suggested.  No problems after 4 shows being required (even
> switching between resolutions).  That is the most stable hd-pvr has
> ever been as a transmission device.  I also just started playing with
> an MCE Remote. Hopefully I can get that stable too.  (Right now, it
> seems to be configured as a keyboard by some other module, instead of
> via LIRC.  Time for more google searches!)
>
> Thanks again for all the assistance!


Well, I didn't run make stagingconfig either and that actually resolved 
my issue with the lirc_serial module and 2.6.38 kernel on Ubuntu 10.10.

Norm