<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small; "><font color="#660066">> Hi, <br>> <br>> I having alot of trouble getting an antec veris elite vfd/ir combo to work under ubuntu karmic. <br>> I can get the ir portion to function with no problems, but cannot get any sign of life from the vfd. <br>> it has a device id of 0x0044 <br>> <br>> After configuring lirc and lcdproc I end up with a dmesg output of : <br>> <br>> [ 21.408199] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32) <br>> [ 21.408203] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2 <br>> [ 21.656487] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32) <br>> [ 21.656490] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #1 <br>> [ 22.279698] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32) <br>> [ 22.279701] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #1 <br>> [ 22.520654] eth0: no IPv6 routers present <br>> [ 22.780632] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32) <br>> [ 22.780635] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #5 <br>> [ 22.903530] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32) <br>> [ 22.903532] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2 <br>> [ 23.277822] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32) <br>> [ 23.277826] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #2 <br>> [ 23.778395] lirc_imon: send_packet: packet tx failed (-32) <br>> [ 23.778399] lirc_imon: vfd_write: send packet failed for packet #5 <br>> <br>> <br>> if I try the echo 'Hello mythtv... command with any combination of lcdproc and lirc running, with the lirc_imon driver loaded i get: <br>> <br>> -bash: /dev/lcd0: Permission denied <br>> <br>> run either as user or as root. <br>> <br>> Any ideas? <br></font><br>-32 is -EPIPE... No clue wtf would trigger that. I have the exact same <br>hardware in my own myth frontend box, works perfectly. What lcdproc <br>driver are you trying to use to drive it? <br><br>-- <br>Jarod Wilson <br>jarod [at] wilsonet </span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have tried both lcdproc 0.5.2 and 0.5.3, with the imon driver, and the lirc modules lirc_imon and lirc_dev</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Eric</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>