[mythtv-users] ATI Remote Wonder - Cannot make it work
Jarod Wilson
jcw at wilsonet.com
Mon Nov 8 07:44:04 UTC 2004
On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:39, Mercury Morris wrote:
> > Yes, faulty hardware is still a possibilty. Testing on
> > Windows is less of a possibility because I have no
> > Windows machine.
> >
> > But I am willing to buy a new computer with Windows
> > installed, to test the ATI Remote as well as other devices.
> >
> > Could a laptop or notebook be used to test the ATI Remote?
> > There just isn't room (or power outlets) for another desktop
> > computer in the house. Please post here if you feel you know
> > how a small Windows laptop could be used to install the ATI
> > software and test the device.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> More information: probably not faulty hardware.
Good to know. Yes, it ought to have worked on a Windows laptop also.
> I removed the USB plugin from the MythTV machine, took
> it and the Remote upstairs and plugged it into another machine.
>
> The upstairs machine also runs Fedora Core 2, same kernel, etc.
> Several messages appeared in the log, after which I pressed the '1'
> button and a '1' was typed on the screen. It was just as if I had
> pressed the '1' key on the keyboard.
Cool.
> So, I guess it's just start from scratch on the MythTV machine.
Not necessary.
> There is one specific difference between the two machines:
> Upstairs has no LIRC running at all, no lirc shows up when
> lsmod is used to see what modules are loaded.
So make the non-functional one match it.
> In one tutorial that advocated using only ati_remote, specific
> instructions were give to remove all of lirc from the system.
> I find it hard to believe that lirc must be completely removed
> from a system, just for ati_remote to work. If you can confirm
> that lirc must be removed, please post your experience here.
Just comment out any lirc module lines and stop lircd from running on boot
(chkconfig lircd off). Saw you already got it working though.
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