[mythtv-users] Help Setting up serial IR blaster for Comcast/Pace DC50X

[Andrew Burgess]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 13:17 -0700, Brad Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Andrew Burgess <aab at cichlid.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> do you need to tell the module what your hardware is or how it works?
> >>
> >> modinfo lirc_serial
> >> filename:
> >> /lib/modules/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/input/lirc/lirc_serial.ko
> >> license:        GPL
> >> author:         Ralph Metzler, Trent Piepho, Ben Pfaff, Christoph
> >> Bartelmus, Andrei Tanas
> >> description:    Infra-red receiver driver for serial ports.
> >> srcversion:     6E4F26F7AF9FF3A5328BE75
> >> depends:        lirc_dev
> >> vermagic:       2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
> >> parm:           type:Hardware type (0 = home-brew, 1 = IRdeo, 2 = IRdeo
> >> Remote, 3 = AnimaX, 4 = IgorPlug) (int)
> >> parm:           io:I/O address base (0x3f8 or 0x2f8) (int)
> >> parm:           irq:Interrupt (4 or 3) (int)
> >> parm:           share_irq:Share interrupts (0 = off, 1 = on) (bool)
> >> parm:           sense:Override autodetection of IR receiver circuit (0 =
> >> active high, 1 = active low ) (bool)
> >> parm:           txsense:Sense of transmitter circuit (0 = active high, 1
> >> = active low ) (bool)
> >> parm:           softcarrier:Software carrier (0 = off, 1 = on) (bool)
> >> parm:           debug:Enable debugging messages (bool)
> >>
> I meant "is there something special i needs to send the driver" (of course)
> 
> I did try to make sure the io: was set to the correct address base.
> Made no difference

maybe debug=1 will tell you something

was your original problem that it thought receive didn't exist?
If so maybe sense= will change things

or run through all the type= possibilities and see if you can get closer