[mythtv-users] AM2 Motherboard with PCI slots galore

[Ronald Frazier]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>  Remember that if you are using a serial port for an LIRC-type IR blaster
>  you can't use a USB-to-Serial adapter, even if the adapter "works" under
>  Linux.
>
>  This is because the blaster uses the serial port in a non-standard way.
>  It uses one or more handshaking lines to drive the blaster LED, and
>  doesn't even use the tx/rx lines.

Interesting. I had no idea those IR devices worked like that, or that
those adapters weren't true serial ports either. I've seen other
devices besides those adapter cables...thing in the form of a box that
had multiple (as many as 4) serial ports. I wonder if those suffer the
same problem or if they do a true emulation.


Well. Those 2 motherboards also had a 1x PCI express slot, so maybe
getting a new adapter card would be an option (though again, drivers
may be a problem).

-- 
Ron