From: Hal <sou...@ha...> - 2007-04-02 14:29:47
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EUREKA!!!! Serendipity can be a wonderful thing. Following your thought about options being wrong, I decided to experiment with the options in the modprobe command line, rather than rely on the contents of modprobe.conf. From a post describing someopne else's travails, I copied/pasted 'modprobe lirc_serial type=0 irq=4 io=0x3f8' and suddenly got output from mode2! It took a few minutes to figure out why. It seems that there is this double-super-secret option to lirc_serial, 'type=0', the absence of which was causing my problems. As far as Google and I can tell, this information doesn't exist anywhere on www.lirc.org. I found it completely by accident. Thanks so much for your help. Hopefully theings will be smoother from this point on. Hal |