[mythtv-users] HTPC cases

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/10/06, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
> On Friday 10 March 2006 21:49, Matthew Geier wrote:
> > N Dugas wrote:
> > > Anyone here using Silverstone cases?  In particular, I'm looking at the
> > > LC14M or LC16M.  I'm just curious to see how the remotes work and if the
> > > VFD was a pain to get working.
> >
> >   I've got at LC11m. Except the the difficultly my vendor had getting a
> > PCI-e video card that would fit, it's a pretty neat case.
> >
> >   I had some initial problems with the VFD and the remote, but they were
> > driver problems. Once I worked out where to get the driver code and
> > compile it. (It's now in lirc anyway), every thing fell into place. The
> > moment the driver created the /dev/lcd device, LCDProc and Myth 'just
> > worked'.
> I had the same experience.  The remote and the LCD display are working
> perfect.  It's really nice to be able to power on your computer with the
> remote ;)
>
> >   I have the imon pad style of remote and the mouse on it doesn't work -
> > although there are patches floating around to address that. Most of the
> > remaining problems with the remote are that i've been so far to lazy to
> > map all the buttons to something, i've only done enough to let me do the
> > basic control I wanted in Myth and haven't bothered to finish the job.
> Mhh, I too have the imon remote and the mouse works flawless.  However, if I
> remember correctly, I had to patch lirc to get it working.  I mapped the
> mouse to up-down-left-right arrows.
> I also patched LCDd to disable the welcome message.  Otherwise it stays
> displayed on the LCD even after powering off the computer (this is because
> the LCD+VFD have always power from the PSU so I can use the remote to power
> on the computer).
>
>
> Stef

sadly you do need a patch to turn the mouse thing into a pointer. I've
saved my source for compilation for this reason. This is the most
confusing part of getting the remote control to work.

--
Steve