[mythtv-users] (Slightly ot) mce remote stops responding

[Leo Butler]

Chris Simmons <cps-mythtv-users at corefiling.co.uk> writes:

> Thanks for the replies but its not the batteries nor focus.  It went
> wrong again last night so I did this.
>
> - exit frontend
> - stop lircd (if only because it eats the events so xev doesn't see them)
> - run xev
> - nothing
> - rmmod mceusb
> - modprobe mceusb
> - xev shows remove springs back to life
>
> I've got another machine which is very similar, same os, same receiver
> but the problem doesn't occur.  Swapping the receivers/remotes didn't
> change anything.   I don't suspend this other machine so much as its
> used less frequently so its usually turned off rather than suspended
> but still.  Makes me wonder whether its a bug in the USB hub driver as
> they have different motherboards?
>
> Still it looks like rmmod'ing mceusb before suspend might fix things,
> I tried it and lircd died but I'm sure I can do something about that.
>
> I'd be grateful of further input if anyone has any bright ideas :)


I don't have any bright ideas, but you should be able to automate your
solution with a suspend/resume script in /etc/pm/sleep.d/ (on debian, at
least), which stops lircd and rmmods mceusb on suspend and reverses the
steps on resume. I don't know if you would need to stop/restart myth fe.

Leo