[mythtv-users] ATI remote wonder lirc config file anyone

[Jeff Mottishaw]

I am running 2.6.1 (or attempting to) and finding many difficulties..
After applying a patch (Flameeyes') to add lirc support to the kernel,
and applying another patch (that I received from the lirc mailing list)
to fix atiusb support in the Flameeyes' patch .. I finally have a kernel
that supports the remote properly.. 

I was then informed that I was to use driver = none, and point it to
/dev/usb/remote0 which should work apparently.. 

But alas, I cannot get lirc to compile from cvs.. I have sent a note to
the lirc mailing list and am hoping that I will be able to get it up and
running soon.  

I don't really understand what lirc does.. I think that's my flaw.. I
had used the gatos driver in the past, and was able to input numbers,
and letters.. Etc, isn't that all I really need working?

Basically use the gatos driver, configure my keys.txt, and tada, it
works..

Maybe you can fill me in on why lirc is needed in our configuration...
Or why it would be preferred over the gatos driver (as the mouse support
is great)

I've had nothing but problems with 2.6 kernel, this is the first I've
run it, which wasn't the best time to switch from 2.4, but I figure its
worth the learning curve, I'm in no hurry.

jeff

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Simon at the
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATI remote wonder lirc config file anyone



Lo Jeff,

I finaly had a play with the lirc_atiusb module yestoday and here are 
some of my learning curve.

The current lirc cvs (alpha I assume) does not compile (missing 
Makefile.kernel file).
The 0.7 pre2 (current compiled version in aptrpms etc.) does not contain

the lirc_atiusb driver/module
Compiling up my own version of 0.7 pre 2 myself with lirc_atiusb support

required a reboot before I could get irw to work.
Sometimes mythfrontend would cause lircd to fall over sometimes on
startup.

Since I could appear to use the remote anymore in mouse mode I went back

to the gatos ati_remote driver and everything works fine.

I may have another go with lirc in the future if it gets a little more 
stable..

Regards
Simon

Jeff Mottishaw wrote:
> The gatos driver's README states:
> 
> The LIRC driver has now been integrated into LIRC-CVS (7.x).  Please 
> download the latest version of LIRC.
> 
> Not sure if that means that the mouse feature has been implemented or 
> not.. But it sounds promising


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