[mythtv-users] IR Blaster recommendation that will work on ubuntu 10.10
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Tue Sep 21 14:23:23 UTC 2010
On Monday, September 20, 2010 11:23:22 pm Oz Dror wrote:
> 1. I am using the serial version with serial to usb connection.
>
> 2. I am talking about a whole distribution upgrade. this means upgrade
> to mythtv 0.23.1 and all the other upgrades
> that comes with ubuntu 10.10
>
> >I think the answer is to solve the freezing problem, at least I have
>
> no intention of replacing my own MyBlaster, it just
>
> >works too well.
>
> I am not a perl expert, but when I tried to debug it. The freezing occur
> around line 30, when performing the following command.
>
> my $serial=init_serial("/dev/ttyUSB0","19200");
>
> This is done during the initialization of the port. It may be as simple
> as change of parameter to a library call or a real failure of perl.
I'm wondering if the problem might be the USB adapter. I'm about to leave for a short trip, when I return I'll load 10.10
onto a test machine and see what I can learn.
I know USB serial adapters have been problematical in the past, but I wouldn't think Ubuntu would go backwards in that
regard.
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