Re: Imon 00:38, Lirc creating additional device and locking up

[Jorn P. <jor...@gm...>]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...> wrote:

> On 11/26/2009 03:56 AM, Jorn wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an Antec Fusion case with Imon 00:38 remote and lcd.  I have Ubuntu
>> 9.10, LIRC 0.8.6 and latest version of XBMC installed.
>>
>> After a lot of browsing through several forums I finally got the remote to
>> work as I want.  I changed the original remote to the MCE remote and
>> remote
>> and volume knob work perfectly.
>>
>> However, when using XBMC, after a short period of time the remote stops
>> responding. XBMC log tells me that the connection to LIRC Failed. If I try
>> irw I get connection refused.
>>
>> I noticed that all of a sudden lirc1 has been added to my devices, where
>> there only was lirc0 when it worked. After rebooting all is back to normal
>> to start with, but it happens again every time.
>>
>> It happens randomly, not invoked by a specific key or combination, and it
>> happens with both the original and the MCE remote. I can't tell if it
>> happens in other applications as I only use XBMC. I don't use the LCD and
>> haven't touched it.
>>
>> Any ideas how to solve this ?
>>
>
> Quite honestly, that sounds like a hardware problem, not a driver problem.
> Seems the device dropped off the face of the earth, then reappeared, and
> looked like it was a new device instead of the same device... Look in your
> system logs and/or dmesg ringbuffer to see what kind of related information
> is there that might shed some further light on what's going on.
>

It does seem to be hardware related, but strangely in windows I don't seem
to have any problems with the remotes.  I've looked into some logs but don't
know which information could
be useful (been using Linux for a couple of months), but here's output from
dmesg right after closing xbmc when the remote stops functioning :

[    6.101971] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[    6.103069] lirc_imon: Driver for SoundGraph iMON MultiMedia IR/Display,
v0.6
[    6.103086] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
[    6.103105] lirc_imon: Registered iMON driver (lirc minor: 0)
[    6.108030] lirc_imon: iMON device (15c2:0038, intf0) on usb<3:3>
initialized
[    6.112206] lirc_imon: iMON device (15c2:0038, intf1) on usb<3:3>
initialized
[    6.112219] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_imon
[   57.561879] lirc_imon: IR port opened
[  275.355947] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
[  275.355985] lirc_imon: Registered iMON driver (lirc minor: 1)
[  275.361767] lirc_imon: iMON device (15c2:0038, intf0) on usb<3:4>
initialized
[  275.364177] lirc_imon: iMON device (15c2:0038, intf1) on usb<3:4>
initialized
[  275.370353] lirc_imon: IR port closed

After a few minutes, following is added :

[  480.420575]  [<f8ac35c5>] lirc_unregister_driver+0x25/0x160 [lirc_dev]
[  480.420581]  [<f8ad8144>] deregister_from_lirc+0x14/0x50 [lirc_imon]
[  480.420590]  [<f8ad8311>] imon_disconnect+0x111/0x160 [lirc_imon]
[  480.420649] INFO: task lircd:839 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[  480.420652] lircd         D c081c5c0     0   839      1 0x00000000
[  480.420676]  [<f8ac35c5>] lirc_unregister_driver+0x25/0x160 [lirc_dev]
[  480.420682]  [<f8ad8144>] deregister_from_lirc+0x14/0x50 [lirc_imon]
[  480.420687]  [<f8ad8487>] ir_close+0x57/0x90 [lirc_imon]
[  480.420690]  [<f8ac3196>] irctl_close+0x66/0xc0 [lirc_dev]

Does this shed some light on the problem ?

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