[mythtv-users] FC14, lirc_mod_mce, MS MCE Keyboard. Anybody have this working?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jan 15, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Brian Kirkman wrote:

>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Brian Kirkman wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the help.  I was trying to compile manually, but I took
>>> your advice and went the dkms route.  It compiles fine, and when I
>>> blacklist mceusb as mentioned, lirc_mod_mce loads fine, too, as shown in
>>> dmesg.  Unfortunately, irw shows nothing, and I'm grasping at straws.  I
>>> am using the default lirc.conf for the mceusb remote.  I also made the
>>> REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_mod_mce" change to /etc/sysconfig/lirc and tried
>>> with
>>> and without the flag, both to no avail.  Lircd starts at bootup as usual
>>> and can be restarted without any errors.
>> 
>> What do you see in dmesg after loading up lirc_mod_mce the first time?
>> Could be that its not binding to your hardware, might not have as complete
>> a list of supported devices.
> 
> [    6.415758] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
> [    6.435874] lirc_mod_mce: Windows Media Center Edition USB IR Keyboard
> and Transceiver driver for LIRC 0.3.1
> [    6.435879] lirc_mod_mce: Jon Davies <jon at hedgerows.org.uk>, Ryan
> Reading, Florian Demski, Daniel Melander <lirc at rajidae.se>, Martin Blatter
> <martin_a_blatter at yahoo.com>, Dan Conti <dconti at acm.wwu.edu>
> ...
> [    6.774415] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
> [    6.774570] input: Philips eHome Infrared Transceiver as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-4/input/input4
> [    6.780356] lirc_mod_mce[2]: Philips eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb2:2
> [    6.780413] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_mod_mce
> 
>> Does /dev/lirc0 exist?
> 
> Yes-
> crw-------   1 root root     61,   0 Jan 15 16:19 lirc0

Then I got nothin'. So far as I know, it ought to be working at that point,
but maybe Derek has further pointers.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com