<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><pre>>>><i> Hi,
</i>>>><i>
</i>>>><i> I having alot of trouble getting an antec veris elite vfd/ir combo to work
</i>>>><i> under ubuntu karmic.
</i>>>><i> I can get the ir portion to function with no problems, but cannot get any
</i>>>><i> sign of life from the vfd.
</i>>>><i> it has a device id of 0x0044
</i>>>><i>
</i>>>><i> After configuring lirc and lcdproc I end up with a dmesg output of :
</i>>>><i>
</i>>>><i> [ 21.408199] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
</i>>>><i> [ 21.408203] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2
</i>>>><i> [ 21.656487] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
</i>>>><i> [ 21.656490] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #1
</i>>>><i> [ 22.279698] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
</i>>>><i> [ 22.279701] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #1
</i>>>><i> [ 22.520654] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
</i>>>><i> [ 22.780632] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
</i>>>><i> [ 22.780635] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #5
</i>>>><i> [ 22.903530] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
</i>>>><i> [ 22.903532] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2
</i>>>><i> [ 23.277822] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
</i>>>><i> [ 23.277826] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2
</i>>>><i> [ 23.778395] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32)
</i>>>><i> [ 23.778399] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #5</i></pre><pre><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">>>></span></i></pre><pre><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">>>></span></i></pre><pre>>>><i> if I try the echo 'Hello mythtv... command with any combination of lcdproc
</i>>>><i> and lirc running, with the lirc_imon driver loaded i get:
</i>>>><i>
</i>>>><i> -bash: /dev/lcd0: Permission denied
</i>>>><i>
</i>>>><i> run either as user or as root.
</i>>>><i>
</i>>>><i> Any ideas?
</i>>><i>
</i>>><i> -32 is -EPIPE... No clue wtf would trigger that. I have the exact same
</i>>><i> hardware in my own myth frontend box, works perfectly. What lcdproc
</i>>><i> driver are you trying to use to drive it?
</i>>><i>
</i>>><i> I have tried both lcdproc 0.5.2 and 0.5.3, with the imon driver, and the
</i>>><i> lirc modules lirc_imon and lirc_dev
</i>
>I got nothin' then, that combo works perfectly here. Can you verify
>the device isn't faulty by spinning it up under Windows?
<br></pre><pre>Works just fine under windows 7.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre></span><div><br></div></body></html>