[mythtv-users] MCE remote doesn't work after hardware upgrade

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 21:57:55 UTC 2014


Hoi Alistair,

Thursday, September 18, 2014, 11:48:11 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Hika,

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hoi Alistair,
>>
>> Thursday, September 18, 2014, 11:17:02 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hoi Thomas,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thursday, September 18, 2014, 5:44:29 PM, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 09/18/2014 01:01 AM, Alistair Grant wrote:
>>>>>>>> After purchasing a new myth box my Media Center Remote is no longer working.
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> I upgraded my hardware over a year ago and had similar issues. I never
>>>>>> found a solution, but tracked it down to some weird conflict with
>>>>>> newer USB controllers. I ended up just buying a flirc.tv so I could
>>>>>> use my TV remote instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, could setting in the bios the usb to legacy mode help?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't recall if I tried that, but it's worth a shot I guess. I
>>>> believe it was actually a driver bug.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>
>>> Many thanks to everyone for your replies.  As Hika suggested, it was a
>>> USB compatibility issue.
>>
>>> Disabling "Intel xHCI Mode" in the BIOS brought the remote back to
>>> life.  From what I've read, this disables USB 3.0, but since I don't
>>> have any USB 3.0 devices in the machine at the moment I can live with
>>> it for now.
>>
>>
>> On the boards and laptops with usb3 I have so far seen, usb3 has a
>> separate controller and separate connectors. They are for instance
>> with blue in stead of black plastic inside. I know usb3 has extra
>> wiring next to the usb2 and the front connectors often only have the
>> usb2 wiring.
>> If so, it might be worth trying one of the other only usb1.1/2
>> connectors with usb3 enabled.
>>

> Yep, the motherboard has 6 x USB 3 (3 banks of 2 plugs) and 4 x USB 2
> controllers (1 bank of 4 plugs), I originally plugged the receiver in
> to a USB 2 plug as it was so old, and then tried plugging it in to
> each of the 3 USB 3 banks.

> FYI, I haven't actually checked the wiring, but according to the Asus
> H97I motherboard manual, the front panel connectors are USB 3 -
> perhaps they're starting to gain more confidence with USB 3.

> Thanks again.

> Cheers,
> Alistair
> _______________________________________________

A pity, but weird that the usb3 driver influences the usb2 or usb1.1
driver, as they are separate and use separate protocols.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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