[mythtv-users] mythbuntu 11.04 lirc mceusb module - how?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 5, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Tim Draper wrote:

> maybe i am; i do have little linux knowledge, and everything i do is based from other users problems.
> i agree, what i currently have seems way to complicated and i seem to have more problems than most!
> 
> so how do you get lirc to use the mceusb module? In the lirc 0.8.7 ./configure script, it has a profile for mceusb. Select it, continue through the configure section, make, and then make install works.
> Lirc 0.9.0 doesnt include the mceusb module and it doesnt detect 'mceusb' module automatically (i presume it should do if it's now included in the kernel), so i cant 'repair' lirc to get it working again after the TV card drivers are installed.

Just install your distro's lirc packages, and choose "default" as the driver
type. Pick the mceusb lircd.conf. That's really about it.

lirc 0.9.0 has no mceusb option because the mceusb driver is in the kernel
now, there's no reason to build lirc_mceusb. Really, most people should just
use their distro's packages, there's very little reason to compile any lirc
bits from source yourself. However, lirc should probably have a new setup.sh
target, something along the lines of "my kernel already provides a driver
for me" to reduce confusion.



> On 5 June 2011 15:14, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Tim Draper wrote:
> 
> > oh no - i spoke too soon. looks like i got it working out of the box before my TV card drivers were installed (which has it's own IR circuit), and must interfer with the mythbuntu lirc config.
> > my previous fix was to install lirc 0.8.7 over the top once the tv card drivers were installed, i tried that but no luck; this is down to the lack of 'mceusb' module. however, it's also come to light that the mythbuntu kernel does not have it, and it doesnt come in the lirc 0.9.0 tarball.
> >
> > i'm now back on 10.10 which i know works, but if anyone has a solution, i know others are experiencing the same issues from the last day of googling!
> 
> Your description of what you've done is mostly incoherent to me. The mceusb driver
> is in the kernel. You install lirc userspace. You tell lirc userspace to use
> either the event device from the mceusb driver, or its lirc device (/dev/lirc0),
> and that's about all there is to it. No reinstalling anything over the top. Either
> you, or the mythbuntu lirc config, are making this way harder than it actually is.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com