[mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

Jim Oltman cnliberal at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 23:45:15 UTC 2005


I just looked on ATRPMs website and there is no listing for getting
the source code for the lirc drivers.  There is also no mention of
exactly what "CVS version" I am using (0.7.0pre 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or
8).  I know that I have lirc 0.7.0-45 from ATRPMs but other than that,
I have no idea.  Anyone know what version I could be running?  I would
LOVE to get this remote going so I could move on to bugging the list
about other problems!  :-)  Thanks!


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:44:10 -0800 (PST), Joe Huffner <huffner at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Unless ATRPMS have been updated, then the only way to
> get this to work would be to compile the drivers. My
> guess is that these drivers will be updated in the
> not-too-distant-future, but exactly when that happens
> is up to the lirc maintainers. Then the RPMS will have
> to be udpated as well.
> 
> Something you can try is to leave your current lirc
> installed.
> 
> 1. Download the same version you have installed.
> 2. Copy the the previously attached source code to the
> appropriate place.
> 3. Configure and compile source.
> 4. Copy the new lirc_mceusb and lirc_dev modules over
> the existing files. (After making a backup of the
> originals of course.)
> 5. Unload the modules, then load the new modules. (Or
> reboot for the easiest way.)
> 
> About your questions concerning my modprobe.conf and
> what not. I don't have anything currently in their
> except ethernet and video. Since my remote wasn't
> working with lirc yet, there was no reason to put
> anything in there. Also, I am running gentoo, so I
> don't know the exact format of the modprobe.conf file,
> but my guess is you would just want the module name
> you would want to load. In this case it would just be
> lirc_mceusb, all the other modules required by lirc
> should be loaded.
> 
> --- Jim Oltman <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Since I used apt-get to install lirc and
> > mythtv-suite, I take it that
> > is would be EXTREMELY difficult for me to compile
> > this new driver into
> > lirc especially since I have never compiled anything
> > in my entire life
> > (except for those 2 semesters in college compiling C
> > code that barely
> > worked).  As I understand it, mythtv-suite already
> > has the lirc-lib
> > included.  Is there a way around all this?  Does
> > anyone know?  My
> > version of the mce_usb driver is listed as v0.2 but
> > doesn't mention
> > anything about this Dan Conti.  Also, on ATRPMs it
> > looks like Axel
> > last updated the lirc drivers on Mar 5th 12:27 CET.
> > Could you tell me
> > how you were able to get your MCE IR receiver up and
> > working (assuming
> > I have the right driver).  What did you put in your
> > /etc/modprobe.conf?  I didn't have a /dev/lirc0 only
> > a /dev/lircd so
> > in my rc.local I put these statements in:
> >
> > ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> > chmod 666 /dev/lirc0
> >
> > /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> > /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
> > --output=/dev/lircd
> >
> > Am I incorrect?  Should I be doing something
> > different?  Thanks!
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:04:11 -0600, Jim Oltman
> > <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Since I used apt-get to install lirc and
> > mythtv-suite, I take it that
> > > is would be EXTREMELY difficult for me to compile
> > this new driver into
> > > lirc especially since I have never compiled
> > anything in my entire life
> > > (except for those 2 semesters in college compiling
> > C code that barely
> > > worked).  As I understand it, mythtv-suite already
> > has the lirc-lib
> > > included.  Is there a way around all this?  Does
> > anyone know?  My
> > > version of the mce_usb driver is listed as v0.2
> > but doesn't mention
> > > anything about this Dan Conti.  Also, on ATRPMs it
> > looks like Axel
> > > last updated the lirc drivers on Mar 5th 12:27
> > CET.  Could you tell me
> > > how you were able to get your MCE IR receiver up
> > and working (assuming
> > > I have the right driver).  What did you put in
> > your
> > > /etc/modprobe.conf?  I didn't have a /dev/lirc0
> > only a /dev/lircd so
> > > in my rc.local I put these statements in:
> > >
> > > ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> > > chmod 666 /dev/lirc0
> > >
> > > /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> > > /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
> > --output=/dev/lircd
> > >
> > > Am I incorrect?  Should I be doing something
> > different?  Thanks!
> > >
> > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:20:20 -0800 (PST), Joe
> > Huffner <huffner at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Just an FYI for those of us who bought one of
> > the
> > > > updated MCE remotes and receivers. I was
> > checking out
> > > > the lirc mailing list and someone has update the
> > > > driver to include support. From what I can tell
> > the
> > > > update has not been updated in CVS.
> > > >
> > > > I found the info at:
> > > >
> >
> http://search.gmane.org/?query=mce&group=gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
> > > >
> > > > Basically what I did was overwrite the
> > lirc_mceusb.c
> > > > in the drivers/lirc_mceusb directory with the
> > source
> > > > found in the mailing liste. (I have attached the
> > new
> > > > source file.) Then went through the install
> > process
> > > > documented. I used version .7.0 of lirc.
> > > >
> > > > Please note, from what I have read and
> > experienced,
> > > > there are some initialization problems. What
> > seemed to
> > > > "fix it" was unplugging the receiver and
> > plugging it
> > > > back in, until I no longer got an error message
> > > > stating the device did not initialize. You can
> > check
> > > > this by running "tail -f /var/log/messages".
> > Also, I
> > > > read that running kernel 2.6.11 seemed to fix
> > the
> > > > initialization problem. However I cannot confirm
> > this
> > > > as I am running Gentoo Dev Kernel 2.6.9-r9.
> > Another
> > > > problem I am having is that I am getting
> > non-stop
> > > > error messages stating:
> > > >
> > > > "usb 2-2: bulk timeout on ep1in"
> > > >
> > > > In fact, I was getting about 4 of those messages
> > per
> > > > second. If/when I get time I am planning to
> > upgrade to
> > > > 2.6.11 to see if this fixes the issue.
> > > >
> > > > -joe
> > >
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