[mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

[Joe Huffner]

Unless ATRPMS have been updated, then the only way to
get this to work would be to compile the drivers. My
guess is that these drivers will be updated in the
not-too-distant-future, but exactly when that happens
is up to the lirc maintainers. Then the RPMS will have
to be udpated as well.

Something you can try is to leave your current lirc
installed. 

1. Download the same version you have installed. 
2. Copy the the previously attached source code to the
appropriate place.
3. Configure and compile source.
4. Copy the new lirc_mceusb and lirc_dev modules over
the existing files. (After making a backup of the
originals of course.)
5. Unload the modules, then load the new modules. (Or
reboot for the easiest way.)

About your questions concerning my modprobe.conf and
what not. I don't have anything currently in their
except ethernet and video. Since my remote wasn't
working with lirc yet, there was no reason to put
anything in there. Also, I am running gentoo, so I
don't know the exact format of the modprobe.conf file,
but my guess is you would just want the module name
you would want to load. In this case it would just be
lirc_mceusb, all the other modules required by lirc
should be loaded. 

--- Jim Oltman <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since I used apt-get to install lirc and
> mythtv-suite, I take it that
> is would be EXTREMELY difficult for me to compile
> this new driver into
> lirc especially since I have never compiled anything
> in my entire life
> (except for those 2 semesters in college compiling C
> code that barely
> worked).  As I understand it, mythtv-suite already
> has the lirc-lib
> included.  Is there a way around all this?  Does
> anyone know?  My
> version of the mce_usb driver is listed as v0.2 but
> doesn't mention
> anything about this Dan Conti.  Also, on ATRPMs it
> looks like Axel
> last updated the lirc drivers on Mar 5th 12:27 CET. 
> Could you tell me
> how you were able to get your MCE IR receiver up and
> working (assuming
> I have the right driver).  What did you put in your
> /etc/modprobe.conf?  I didn't have a /dev/lirc0 only
> a /dev/lircd so
> in my rc.local I put these statements in:
> 
> ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> chmod 666 /dev/lirc0
> 
> /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 
> --output=/dev/lircd
> 
> Am I incorrect?  Should I be doing something
> different?  Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:04:11 -0600, Jim Oltman
> <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since I used apt-get to install lirc and
> mythtv-suite, I take it that
> > is would be EXTREMELY difficult for me to compile
> this new driver into
> > lirc especially since I have never compiled
> anything in my entire life
> > (except for those 2 semesters in college compiling
> C code that barely
> > worked).  As I understand it, mythtv-suite already
> has the lirc-lib
> > included.  Is there a way around all this?  Does
> anyone know?  My
> > version of the mce_usb driver is listed as v0.2
> but doesn't mention
> > anything about this Dan Conti.  Also, on ATRPMs it
> looks like Axel
> > last updated the lirc drivers on Mar 5th 12:27
> CET.  Could you tell me
> > how you were able to get your MCE IR receiver up
> and working (assuming
> > I have the right driver).  What did you put in
> your
> > /etc/modprobe.conf?  I didn't have a /dev/lirc0
> only a /dev/lircd so
> > in my rc.local I put these statements in:
> > 
> > ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> > chmod 666 /dev/lirc0
> > 
> > /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> > /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 
> --output=/dev/lircd
> > 
> > Am I incorrect?  Should I be doing something
> different?  Thanks!
> > 
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:20:20 -0800 (PST), Joe
> Huffner <huffner at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Just an FYI for those of us who bought one of
> the
> > > updated MCE remotes and receivers. I was
> checking out
> > > the lirc mailing list and someone has update the
> > > driver to include support. From what I can tell
> the
> > > update has not been updated in CVS.
> > >
> > > I found the info at:
> > >
>
http://search.gmane.org/?query=mce&group=gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
> > >
> > > Basically what I did was overwrite the
> lirc_mceusb.c
> > > in the drivers/lirc_mceusb directory with the
> source
> > > found in the mailing liste. (I have attached the
> new
> > > source file.) Then went through the install
> process
> > > documented. I used version .7.0 of lirc.
> > >
> > > Please note, from what I have read and
> experienced,
> > > there are some initialization problems. What
> seemed to
> > > "fix it" was unplugging the receiver and
> plugging it
> > > back in, until I no longer got an error message
> > > stating the device did not initialize. You can
> check
> > > this by running "tail -f /var/log/messages".
> Also, I
> > > read that running kernel 2.6.11 seemed to fix
> the
> > > initialization problem. However I cannot confirm
> this
> > > as I am running Gentoo Dev Kernel 2.6.9-r9.
> Another
> > > problem I am having is that I am getting
> non-stop
> > > error messages stating:
> > >
> > > "usb 2-2: bulk timeout on ep1in"
> > >
> > > In fact, I was getting about 4 of those messages
> per
> > > second. If/when I get time I am planning to
> upgrade to
> > > 2.6.11 to see if this fixes the issue.
> > >
> > > -joe
> >
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