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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12-3-2013 23:40, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jos
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<div>On 12-3-2013 4:49, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:31 AM,
Jos Hoekstra <span dir="ltr"><<a
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all, recently I decided to upgrade my frontend with
and SSD to speed up bootup and silence it a bit more.<br>
After this update something changed in I guess the
kernel since after that I get symptoms which look like
the up-arrow is constantly pressed on a keyboard. I
was able to determine it was the VFD that's causing
these symptoms, however I don't know how to get rid of
it.<br>
When I boot back in the old system which was Ubuntu
12.04 with kernel 3.2.something everything is ok.<br>
I cannot get that kernel installed in Ubuntu 12.10 and
everything that's 3.4 or higher seems to cause these
problems.<br>
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Did anyone with this VFD experience the same problems?
If so, how did you get them solved?<br>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
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Jos<br>
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I don't know which SoundGraph model you have, and
unfortunately there are several different models, some
of which share the same USB ID (15c2:ffdc), but the
driver uses different, incompatible methods for
driving the different displays. There is a module
called 'imon' (kernel config symbol ir_imon) which has
a parameter called display_type which I had to set to
1 in order for the VFD to work. The default autodetect
(0) didn't work for me. Check your distribution
documentation for how to configure module parameters.<br>
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Karl<br>
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I got the one in the silverstone LC16M(15c2:0036) and it
seems I'm not the only one experiencing these problems.<br>
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href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1086120"
target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1086120</a><br>
It's actually kernel 2.6.32 that works ok all later seem to
screw this up.<br>
Changing the setting via module parameters doesn't help with
the issue which also occurs on other linux(fedora 18) with a
recent kernel.<br>
I wonder why there seem to be so little users with
problems....<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jos<br>
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Mine came with a Silverstone LC11M, and is the above mentioned
15c2:ffdc model and it's still working fine with the imon module
in 3.7.10 (although its IR receiver died several years ago so now
it's just a display). Did you try it with a generic kernel, or
only with a Fedora-specific kernel?<br>
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I found this post from Jarod Wilson, who did a lot of the work to
merge the lirc code into the kernel: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wilsonet.com/?page_id=95">http://wilsonet.com/?page_id=95</a>
Maybe it will give you some ideas about where to look or what to
try next.<br>
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Karl<br>
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I set it up on ubuntu and only tried a Fedora livedisk to rule out
ubuntuspecific problems. I tried with several mainline kernels from
ubuntu ranging from 2.6.32 to 3.8 and I'm guessing that the change
to dev-input is the possible cause. Maybe catching the offending
code and discarding it is the way to use the display and lirc again.<br>
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