[mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

Jim Oltman cnliberal at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 18:48:59 UTC 2005


Has anyone had any luck getting this IR Receiver to work?  I know that
Jared has, but someone else has GOT to be using it too.


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:21:47 -0600, Jim Oltman <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:
> My last post was about this very same thing, but I wasn't specific
> enough and I caused a very nice person, Martin, to spend an aweful lot
> of time helping me out.  Apologies again!  Getting down to it.  When I
> boot with the MCE USB receiver plugged in, cat /var/log/messages |
> grep usb gives me this output:
> 
> Mar 12 11:36:41 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> Mar 12 11:36:41 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
> Mar 12 11:36:44 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> Mar 12 11:36:44 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> Mar 12 11:36:44 mythfrontend kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c:
> v2.0:USB HID core driver
> Mar 12 11:36:45 mythfrontend kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB
> device using ohci_hcd and address 2
> 
> I am not sure what settings to put in my modprobe.conf and if I need
> to edit lircd in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or not.  Here is the pertinent part
> of my modprobe.conf after I followed some directions at
> FedoraForum.org
> (http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27829&highlight=ttyUSB0):
> 
> # LIRC Setup
> 
> alias char-major-188-0 usbserial
> options usbserial vendor=0x0471 product=0x0815
> alias lirc0 lirc_mceusb
> install lirc_mceusb ;\
>   /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_mceusb
> 
> Can anyone please point me in the right direction?  What am I doing
> wrong?  Here are my system stats:
> 
> Frontend System:
> 
> 2500+ Athlon
> 512MB PC2700 RAM
> Asus A7N8X-E DLX Mobo
> Chaintech FX5200 128MB RAM
> DVD+R drive, Floppy drive
> MCE USB IR Receiver/Blaster
> Using Jarod's Guide
> FC3 running vanilla 2.6.10_770 kernel
> APT-GET all components (lirc, nvidia drivers, mythtv-suite, etc all
> done on 3-11-05)
> 
> Thanks to Jarod for his wonderful guide.  Because of him I had a great
> Mythbox going for months.  And thanks to me for mucking it up!!
>


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