Re: Lockups after installing MCE USB IR receiver

[Travis T. <tr...@ta...>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...> wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Travis Tabbal wrote:
>
> > This is the ID of the reciever:
> >
> > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1784:0008 TopSeed Technology Corp.
> >
> > After getting it running, I get lots of lockups at seemingly random
> times, right after using the remote. I can't seem to get any logging on the
> issue, though I have seen posts on an XBMC forum suspecting a
> chipset/receiver interop issue. After this happens, the machine is hard
> locked. I don't get any response from a local keyboard, and can't SSH into
> the machine. It's like the kernel crashes. I was wondering if anyone here
> has some hints on getting this fixed? I don't know if it's LIRC itself, the
> mceusb driver, or just faulty hardware. The machine works fine if I just use
> a keyboard, but that's not really TV friendly. On the XBMC forums, they
> suggested adding a USB card as a solution. I'm thinking of trying that
> tonight as I have an old PCI USB card, if I can find it. I have tried
> different ports on the motherboard USB already.
> >
> > Distro is Ubuntu 9.10. LIRC installed from packages, version 0.8.6.
> Motherboard is an Asus M3N78-VM.
>
> Having used several mceusb devices over time with several different
> machines, I'd be inclined to say there's some sort of issue specific to your
> hardware. More likely a usb chipset issue than anything else. Trying out a
> pci usb card is definitely a good step to try out.
>
>

Thanks for the reply. I tried a new card with similar results. I completely
rebuilt the software install and so far it seems to be working fine. I must
have had some kind of software problem. I'm not sure what I could have had
messed up, but it's run far longer now that it had before without any
issues. I'm using the same hardware.conf and lircd.conf, but I guess I could
have had something messed up in a kernel module or something.