[mythtv-users] MCE remote doesn't work after hardware upgrade

[Alistair Grant]

Hi Hika,

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Alistair,
>
> Thursday, September 18, 2014, 11:17:02 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hoi Thomas,
>>>>
>>>> Thursday, September 18, 2014, 5:44:29 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 09/18/2014 01:01 AM, Alistair Grant wrote:
>>>>>>> After purchasing a new myth box my Media Center Remote is no longer working.
>>>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> I upgraded my hardware over a year ago and had similar issues. I never
>>>>> found a solution, but tracked it down to some weird conflict with
>>>>> newer USB controllers. I ended up just buying a flirc.tv so I could
>>>>> use my TV remote instead.
>>>>
>>>> If so, could setting in the bios the usb to legacy mode help?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't recall if I tried that, but it's worth a shot I guess. I
>>> believe it was actually a driver bug.
>>>
>>> --
>
>> Many thanks to everyone for your replies.  As Hika suggested, it was a
>> USB compatibility issue.
>
>> Disabling "Intel xHCI Mode" in the BIOS brought the remote back to
>> life.  From what I've read, this disables USB 3.0, but since I don't
>> have any USB 3.0 devices in the machine at the moment I can live with
>> it for now.
>
>
> On the boards and laptops with usb3 I have so far seen, usb3 has a
> separate controller and separate connectors. They are for instance
> with blue in stead of black plastic inside. I know usb3 has extra
> wiring next to the usb2 and the front connectors often only have the
> usb2 wiring.
> If so, it might be worth trying one of the other only usb1.1/2
> connectors with usb3 enabled.
>

Yep, the motherboard has 6 x USB 3 (3 banks of 2 plugs) and 4 x USB 2
controllers (1 bank of 4 plugs), I originally plugged the receiver in
to a USB 2 plug as it was so old, and then tried plugging it in to
each of the 3 USB 3 banks.

FYI, I haven't actually checked the wiring, but according to the Asus
H97I motherboard manual, the front panel connectors are USB 3 -
perhaps they're starting to gain more confidence with USB 3.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Alistair