[mythtv-users] iMON IR config on Fedora 14 is broken

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jan 13, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Nick Ashman wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
>> The missing piece is loading the matching RC-6 keymap, but it seems that
>> was failing for you. I'll have to see if I can get to the bottom of that
>> with some of my own imon hardware, I've not tried it of late. This should
>> be the only thing that needs doing to make your setup behave correctly.
>> 
>> Well, that or I push another build that introduces the modprobe option
>> back to just load the mce keytable by default... Upstream objects to the
>> change, as the plan in the long run is to move all keytables out to
>> userspace, auto-loaded by udev triggers.
> 
> Crap. There's an ioctl type mismatch between the latest v4l-utils version
> of ir-keytable and what's in the 2.6.35.x kernel backports. We have some
> new ioctls upstream that don't exist in 2.6.35, and thus the kernel code
> was backported to use older ioctls, but userspace is expecting the newer
> ones. This problem will go away in 2.6.37, I believe, but for now, the
> easiest thing for me to do right now is to just add a switch to the imon
> driver to allow specifying ir protocol on module load.
> 
> -- 
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
> 
> 
> I'm a gentoo (funtoo actually) user with the above problem I think, but it 
> hasn't been fixed by kernel 2.6.37.
> 
> kernel	2.6.37
> lirc		lirc-0.9.0_pre1 
> v4l		v4l-utils-0.8.1
> 
> ir-keytable                                                                                            
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event6) with:                                                                    
>        Driver imon, table rc-imon-pad                                                                                 
>        Supported protocols:    Enabled protocols:
> 
> ir-keytable -p rc-6
> Protocols changed to RC-6
> 
> ir-keytable -r
> Enabled protocols:
> 
> ir-keytable
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event6) with:
>        Driver imon, table rc-imon-pad
>        Supported protocols:    Enabled protocols:
> 
> Nothing happening here.

You need an 'ir-keytable -w rc_keymaps/imon-mce' or something along those
lines too. But its possible the ioctl changes I'm thinking of aren't even
in 2.6.37, and are 2.6.38 material...


> But Jarod , if you are listening, I emailed you a couple of weeks ago with 
> codes from the Antec Fusion volume knob CW and CCW.  I can confirm that the 
> knob is now supported with kernel 2.6.37.

Cool, thanks for the confirmation.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com