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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-3-2013 13:25, Anthony Giggins
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 March 2013 11:44, Jos Hoekstra
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<div>On 12-3-2013 23:40, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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<div>On 12-3-2013 4:49, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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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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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><font
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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"
target="_blank">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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<div>I've got the same case and same device ie. 15c2:0036
and its working fine on 12.0.4.2 mythbuntu x86_64
3.2.0-38, recently updated from 12.04, I initially had a
fight with lirc to get the remote working correctly but
the VFD worked fine from memory. <br>
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/etc/LCDd.conf is set to imon and the imon config is as
follows<br>
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[imon]<br>
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# select the device to use<br>
Device=/dev/lcd0<br>
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# display dimensions<br>
Size=16x2<br>
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CharMap=hd44780_euro<br>
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/etc/lirc/hardware.conf contains<br>
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#Chosen Remote Control<br>
REMOTE="Linux input layer (/dev/input/eventX)"<br>
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_imon"<br>
REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"<br>
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-id/usb-15c2_0036-event-if00"<br>
REMOTE_SOCKET="/var/run/lirc/lircd"<br>
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"<br>
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""<br>
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/etc/udev/rules.d/10-lirc.rules<br>
ATTRS{idVendor}=="15c2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0036",
OPTIONS=="ignore_device"<br>
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<div>I think the udev rule was the winner in the end but
this was some time back now<br>
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<div>Cheers,<br>
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<div>Anthony<br>
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Nope, tried and verified these and still get the continuous UP-arrow
like this:<br>
^[[AMar 12 15:44:03 frontend kernel: [ 1580.767462] intf1 decoded
packet: 00 00 00 00 12 00 01 ee <br>
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Guess I'll try to slap an older kernel in it or just downgrade the
whole thing again, couldn't grab the packagefiles from the old
disk...<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Jos<br>
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