Re: Lirc installed, light flashes, no irw response

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Dec 20, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Lorne Kligerman wrote:

> This is what I get:
> 
> lorne@tv:/dev$ sudo mode2 -d /dev/lirc0
> mode2: could not get hardware features
> mode2: this device driver does not support the LIRC ioctl interface
> mode2: major number of /dev/lirc0 is 250
> mode2: LIRC major number is 61
> mode2: check if /dev/lirc0 is a LIRC device
> lorne@tv:/dev$

That's... Not so good. Is the hardware still showing up in lsusb
output? And is this lirc_mceusb or the mceusb driver from your
distro's kernel?


> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Lorne Kligerman wrote:
> 
> > Ah ok, makes sense.  Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean and how to use just the mceusb config?
> 
> Use remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb for lircd.conf, and don't use the
> devinput driver, use the 'default' driver (or specify none, since its
> the default), with device /dev/lirc0.
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...> wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Lorne Kligerman wrote:
> >
> > > I killed inputlirc, but am unable to have mode2 open any of the inputs.
> > >
> > > lorne@tv:~$ sudo mode2 -H devinput -d /dev/input/event4
> > > mode2: initializing '/dev/input/event4'
> > > This program does not work for this hardware yet
> > > lorne@tv:~$
> > >
> > > lorne@tv:~$ mode2 -H devinput -d /dev/input/event4
> > > mode2: initializing '/dev/input/event4'
> > > mode2: unable to open '/dev/input/event4'
> > > lorne@tv:~$
> > >
> > > How do I get mode2, and likely the other commands, to work with the devinput driver?
> >
> > You don't. You use mode2 against /dev/lirc0.
> >
> > I think I see now why you're not getting any data though. You're trying
> > to use the devinput config rather than the mceusb config, but the
> > ubuntu initscripts disable in-kernel decoding, which means you'll never
> > get any input layer keycodes passed along. I'd advise just using the
> > normal mceusb config.
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...> wrote:
> > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:35 AM, lklig wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Installed lirc, selected Windows Media Centre Transceivers/Remotes
> > > >
> > > > lorne@tv:~$ uname -a
> > > > Linux tv 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 11:55:36 UTC 2010
> > > > x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > > > lorne@tv:~$
> > > >
> > > > IR receiver is an HP Media Center
> > > > lorne@tv:/dev$ lsusb
> > > > Bus 006 Device 003: ID 045e:006d Microsoft Corp. eHome Remote Control
> > > > Keyboard keys
> > > >
> > > > Remote is a Logitech Harmony 880
> > > >
> > > > lorne@tv:/etc/lirc$ ps -ef |grep lirc
> > > > nobody 1223 1 0 19:58 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inputlircd -m0 -g -c
> > > > -d/var/run/lirc/lircd /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event2
> > > > root 2552 1 0 20:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd
> > > > --device=/dev/lirc0
> > > ...
> > > > When I run irw, the red light on the receiver flash, but no commands appear
> > > > on the screen.
> > >
> > > Why do you have both inputlircd and lircd running?
> > >
> > > Try running mode2, see if it reports anything. But first, please get
> > > inputlircd out of the way, just to be sure its not interfering.
> > >
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