[mythtv-users] Help - Lirc broken after upgrade to 0.9.0

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jul 24, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 18:33 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:07 -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Jeff Cranmer <jeff at lotussevencars.com> wrote:
>>>> When I run 'emerge -Dav lirc', there is no longer an mceusb instance listed
>>>> in the available 'LIRC_DEVICES' use flags.  Are you implying that I still
>>>> need to have mceusb as well as devinput in the 'LIRC_DEVICES' entry in
>>>> make.conf
>>> 
>>> I don't use emerge or Gentoo, so I can't speak to that.  The driver
>>> that an mceusb receiver needs to use is called "default".
>>> 
>>> You should be able to run:
>>> 
>>>  lircd --driver=list
>>> 
>>> to get a list of supported drivers for your compiled lircd.  You won't
>>> see mceusb there, but you must see "default" if you want this to work.
>>> That's the driver you need to use.  If you don't see that, you'll
>>> need to recompile with appropriate options to get that driver enabled.
>>> 
>>> Eric
>> 
>> No 'default' option listed either as a response to lircd --driver list
>> (null) and also no 'default' option listed in the 'LIRC_DEVICES=' make
>> options.
>> 
>> There is a 'userspace' driver option, and an 'all' driver option, but no
>> 'default'.  I'll try compiling with LIRC_DEVICES="all" and see if that
>> brings up anything else.
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
> Compiling with LIRC_DEVICES="all" worked, and my system is now
> operational.  Still curious to know which is the correct driver

For classic lirc mode, "default". For in-kernel decode, if you want to
still remap stuff with lircd, "devinput".

Personally, I prefer in-kernel decode with no lircd at all.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com