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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I too have one of these cases, remote and vfd, and I’m
not getting anywhere.</span></font></p>
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Running windows, with COM1 set to 1200 baud, 8N1, no flow control, I get
regular and repeatable codes from the remote – which I suppose is good.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But, in Linux, I’m having major trouble. I have
lirc_serial loaded, but nothing happens. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My thoughts are </span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>when lircd starts, it reports lircd(haugpage) – which
I think is wrong, as im not using one.</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I try and complile lirc latest with a generic UART
16550A settings for a COM1 device it fails immediately saying that the
TOPDIR variable is not set in pathdown.sh</span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Any ideas?</span></font></p>
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Also, have you had any luck getting the VFD to work, as I’ve not tried
hard on that one yet?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tips and advice welcome ;)</span></font></p>
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