[mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.39 and lirc 9.0 problems

[Dan Littlejohn]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Dan Littlejohn <dan.littlejohn at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am running gentoo and recently upgraded my myth box.  Everything seemed
> to go well, but I am having problems getting lirc to work again.  This is
> a frontend with a pvr350 that I use for the remote input and an ir blaster
> to change channels on my satellite box so I need to get both a hauppauge
> grey remote and an ir blaster working at the same time
>
>
>
> Before the upgrade, I was running lirc8.7 and kernel 2.6.35, and at boot I
> would load lirc_i2c and lirc_serial.  My init.d lircd file looked like
> this
>
>
>
> start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/lirc/lircd1.pid --quiet --exec
> /usr/sbin/lircd -- --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1
> --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd1 --pidfile=/var/run/lirc/lircd1.pid
> --listen=8765
>
> start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid --quiet --exec
> /usr/sbin/lircd -- --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0
> --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd --pidfile=/var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
> --connect=localhost:8765
>
>
>
> Now I am using lirc 9.0 and kernel 2.6.39 and understand a lot of stuff has
> been moved into the kernel, but I am a bit stumped as to how to get this
> working again.  Here is some of the log that shows dmesg and that the
> keymap seems to look ok for rc5
>
>
>
> one linux # dmesg | grep ivtv
>
> ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.2
>
> ivtv0: Initializing card 0
>
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23415 based)
>
> ivtv 0000:05:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
>
> ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
>
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350
>
> saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>
> saa7127 0-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>
> msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>
> ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
>
> ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
>
> ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
>
> ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
>
> ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
>
> ivtv0: Registered device video16 for decoder MPG (1024 kB)
>
> ivtv0: Registered device vbi8 for decoder VBI (64 kB)
>
> ivtv0: Registered device vbi16 for decoder VOUT
>
> ivtv0: Registered device video48 for decoder YUV (1024 kB)
>
> ivtv0: Initialized card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350
>
> ivtv: End initialization
>
> ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
>
> ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
>
> ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
>
> ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
>
> ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
>
> Modules linked in: snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device
>
> snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss nvidia(P) tuner_simple tuner_types tda9887
> tda8290
>
> tuner msp3400 saa7127 snd_hda_codec_hdmi saa7115 ivtv snd_hda_codec_realtek
>
> cx2341x i2c_algo_bit v4l2_common videodev snd_hda_intel tveeprom
> snd_hda_codec
>
> i2c_core 8250_pnp snd_hwdep snd_pcm 8250 snd_timer serial_core
> snd_page_alloc
>
> ir-kbd-i2c: i2c IR (Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 detected at i2c-0/0-0018/ir0
> [ivtv
>
> i2c driver #0]
>
>
>
> one linux # dmesg | grep lirc
>
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 253
>
> rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (rc-loopback) registered at minor =
> 0
>
>
>
> one linux # ir-keytable
>
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event2) with:
>
> Driver rc-loopback, table rc-empty
>
> Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC other
>
> Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC other
>
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc1/ (/dev/input/event5) with:
>
> Driver ir-kbd-i2c, table rc-hauppauge
>
> Supported protocols: RC-5       Enabled protocols: RC-5
>
>
>
> Currently, I have LIRC_DEVICES='userspace' (have also tried devinput,
> default, serial and combos of those).   I enable all the lirc modules and
> the ir staging modules in the kernel.
>
>
>
> I have tried devinput (lircd –n –H devinput –d /dev/input5) and ir-kbd-i2c
> (modprobe ir-kdb-i2c hauppauge=1 with lircd -n -d /dev/lirc0) and neither
> seems to work when using iwr, but I do see dmesg key presses when using
> modprobe ir-kbd-i2c debug=1, but not in irw.   I am not sure which
> approach I should be focusing on to get both the pvr350 remote and the ir
> blaster to both work.  I have read everything I can in the list and what I
> can find, but it is a bit confusing.  Right now, neither work.  Would
> appreciate any advice to get this working.
>


Is there anything I could add that would make it easier to provide some
advice to this?  Would really like to get this sorted out.

Dan
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