[mythtv-users] Using devinput but devinput lircd.conf file does not contain all my remote buttons on Harmony One

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Mon Jun 13 20:15:42 UTC 2011


On Jun 13, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 7:55 AM, David Watkins wrote:
>> 
>>>> That kernel may be old enough that it doesn't have your particular device's
>>>> driver ported over to rc-core yet.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for reply - I was starting to wonder about the kernel version
>>> myself, but it was the newest one available for FC14 (2.6.35.13 is
>>> available now but I guess that's not any more likely to contain my
>>> device driver?).
>> 
>> Most of the new work is only going into 2.6.38 and later, 2.6.35 and
>> Fedora 14 are not actively receiving driver stack updates anymore.
>> 
>> 
>>> I think I'll use irrecord for now and come back to this at a later
>>> date when I'm on a more recent distro.
>> 
>> Fedora 15's (2.6.38.x) and later kernels should have rc-core support
>> for your hardware.
>> 
> Jarod,
> 
> Thanks again for your help.  I was out of town since last Thursday, so
> have not had a chance to try your latest suggestions.  However, these
> emails are making me wonder if I am running too old of a kernel (I am
> hesitant to use the latest kernel because devinput is my only option
> and at this point, I don't have that working.
> 
> Here is my kernel version: 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686

Based on vague recollections from looking at the changelog, you probably
do need a slightly newer F14 kernel. I think -81 or so looks like where
the ir-kbd-i2c driver got fully rc-core-ified.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com





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