[mythtv-users] iMON IR config on Fedora 14 is broken
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Fri Jan 14 18:09:09 UTC 2011
On Jan 13, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Nick Ashman wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
>> The missing piece is loading the matching RC-6 keymap, but it seems that
>> was failing for you. I'll have to see if I can get to the bottom of that
>> with some of my own imon hardware, I've not tried it of late. This should
>> be the only thing that needs doing to make your setup behave correctly.
>>
>> Well, that or I push another build that introduces the modprobe option
>> back to just load the mce keytable by default... Upstream objects to the
>> change, as the plan in the long run is to move all keytables out to
>> userspace, auto-loaded by udev triggers.
>
> Crap. There's an ioctl type mismatch between the latest v4l-utils version
> of ir-keytable and what's in the 2.6.35.x kernel backports. We have some
> new ioctls upstream that don't exist in 2.6.35, and thus the kernel code
> was backported to use older ioctls, but userspace is expecting the newer
> ones. This problem will go away in 2.6.37, I believe, but for now, the
> easiest thing for me to do right now is to just add a switch to the imon
> driver to allow specifying ir protocol on module load.
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
>
>
> I'm a gentoo (funtoo actually) user with the above problem I think, but it
> hasn't been fixed by kernel 2.6.37.
>
> kernel 2.6.37
> lirc lirc-0.9.0_pre1
> v4l v4l-utils-0.8.1
>
> ir-keytable
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event6) with:
> Driver imon, table rc-imon-pad
> Supported protocols: Enabled protocols:
>
> ir-keytable -p rc-6
> Protocols changed to RC-6
>
> ir-keytable -r
> Enabled protocols:
>
> ir-keytable
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event6) with:
> Driver imon, table rc-imon-pad
> Supported protocols: Enabled protocols:
>
> Nothing happening here.
You need an 'ir-keytable -w rc_keymaps/imon-mce' or something along those
lines too. But its possible the ioctl changes I'm thinking of aren't even
in 2.6.37, and are 2.6.38 material...
> But Jarod , if you are listening, I emailed you a couple of weeks ago with
> codes from the Antec Fusion volume knob CW and CCW. I can confirm that the
> knob is now supported with kernel 2.6.37.
Cool, thanks for the confirmation.
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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