From: Jim C. <Jim...@ut...> - 2005-03-02 04:30:38
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Yeah, I have been away for a bit. I've been busy with school, but I've been checking into things with the driver with a couple of guys. Jeff Burricelli tells me that it works great every time with his setup (2.6.10), so I'm going to go ahead and just attach the full driver to this e-mail. I've had initialization problems with the receiver like Martin describes, but it's always seemed like something with the Linux USB sub-system itself and not the driver. So, whoever wants to try out the driver is welcome to it. It would be especially nice if others running the latest and greatest could check it out. If it consistently works, then the initialization issues could be cleared up in later kernels. Good luck with the driver. I'll watch the list for news about it, and if things work out well, I'll make a couple of final changes and submit a patch. Or Martin can do his. Either way. Jim EC wrote: >Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:06:16 +0100 | Martin Blatter <mbl...@gm...> > >::-I wrote a driver for the new MCE (aka Philips eHome) remote. >Basically it works ::-great, however the initialization of the remote >fails most of the ::-time. I need to plug it >::-in at least two or three times to have it initialized correctly. >::- >::-USB Snoopy on Windows shows me the exact same initialization sequence >that ::-I use in my driver but somehow the transciever behaves >differently. Did anyone ::-experience similar problems? Is there >something in the USB enumeration process ::-that Linux does differently >than Windows that might affect the ::-initialization process? >::- >::-regrads >::-martin >::- >::- >::-------------------------------------------------------- >::-SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide >::-Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real >users. ::-Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start >reading now. ::-http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > >Would you mind making the driver available? I know there are many >people (myself included) on this list that are eager to get their mce >remotes working. Another guy ><http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.lirc/1979> said he had >been working on a driver too, but he has been away since. >We could even test your initialization problems ;). > > |