[pvrusb2] Trouble with lirc

[Mike Isely]

All:

I'm sorry I've been silent about this.  For the past week I've been 
distracted by something else (not related to this driver).  However I 
_will_ dig into this.  I've got both 29xxx and 24xxx devices here so I'll 
validate my lirc setup with the 29xxx device first and then see where we 
stand with the 24xxx device.  And I'll report back what I figure out.

With the 24xxx device, Hauppauge changes quite a bit of the internals. 
It's possible that the IR receiver changed as well - though let's hope 
not...

   -Mike


On Tue, 16 May 2006, Andreas Beck wrote:

> Rick Immel <rckimmel at aim.com> wrote:
>> I am still unable to get the remote control to work.  So here is what I
>> know so far.  My Linux kernel is version 2.6.16.  My hardware is the
>> newer 24XXX version with the standard Hauppauge remote control.  I am
>
> From this and the rest of your story I derive, you got exactly the same
> problem that I have.
>
> I would also suggest that you remove lirc_i2c and reload it with debug=1
> as parameter. You will probably see it probing for the IR receiver
> hardware via I²C, but find nothing.
>
> Did anybody open up the 24xxx device yet and had a look for the chips on
> it? I suppose Hauppage also changed the IR receiver chip or maybe its
> configuration.
>
> Knowing which chip is in use might enable us to guess the possible I²C
> addresses. With some luck they chose a very similar chip.
>
>> It appears that Cx8800/Cx88xx and bttv pops up everywhere.  Is that
>> supposed to happen?
>
> As far as I can see from the lirc_i2c driver sources, these modules are
> probably a dependency from this driver, so I suppose it is normal, that
> they get loaded.
>
>> When I run mode2 without "lircd" loaded I get the following messages:
>> mode2: error opening /dev/lirc
>> mode2: No such device
>
> Same for me. Same happens when opening /dev/lircd directly. And major
> seems right for me when looking into /proc/major.
>
> I also tried forcing the minor to 0 with the minor option of the module,
> so this should be right, too.
>
>> Could someone let me know what I'm doing wrong?  BTW after lirc is
>> installed, the pvrusb2 driver and MythTV are still working properly.
>
> I suppose it is the 24xxx hardware.
>
> Has anyone opened the box yet and maybe made some highres photos?
>
>
> CU, Andy
>
>

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