[mythtv-users] Configuring mceusb for frontend with 3.0 kernel

[phipps-hutton at sky.com]

Quoting Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com>:
> Has anyone gone down this road yet or am I the first (yuck)?

I'm not on Ubuntu but Debian with a backported 3.1 kernel which is  
probably similar enough. You are right that mos IR devices are now  
included with the kernel and the drivers should just work with X. The  
problem is that most remote keys are not mapped very well so usually  
just the arrows and OK works but not much more. I've gone back to  
using LIRC with MythTV since it's well tested.

I have a hacked up /etc/lirc/hardware.conf:

LIRCD_ARGS=""
LOAD_MODULES=false
DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
MODULES=""
LIRCD_CONF=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""
echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols 2>/dev/null || true

The script is sourced so you can put commands in it and they will be  
run just before lircd is run. The last line stops the keyboard driver  
grabbing the remote and lets lircd have control. Everything else is  
unchanged from a 2.6.?? kernel. udev (or is it modprobe?) loads the  
modules at boot up (I get ir_lirc_codec, lirc_dev, ir_mce_kbd_decoder,  
ir_sony_decoder, ir_jvc_decoder, ir_rc6_decoder, ir_rc5_decoder,  
rc_rc6_mce, ir_nec_decoder, mceusb and rc_core). If lircd can't see  
the devie file you could try manually loading some of those modules.

Hope this helps,
Tim.