Re: lirc-0.9.0 Please add the streamzap driver

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

On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:58 PM, Marc Hurst wrote:

> Jarod:
> 
> Here's what I got:
> 
> # modinfo ir-lirc-codec
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.38-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.ko
> description:    LIRC IR handler bridge
> author:         Red Hat Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
> author:         Jarod Wilson <ja...@re...>
> license:        GPL
> depends:        lirc_dev,rc-core
> intree:         Y
> vermagic:       2.6.38-1-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions


Hrm. I'm mostly out of ideas here. Probably need to see dmesg output
after boot or a manual reload of the streamzap driver to have a better
idea of where things are falling down.


> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 15:02 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Apr 17, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Marc Hurst wrote:
>> 
>>> Jarod, I'm really confused now. Apparently I'm not successfully building
>>> lirc. Should I be building lirc-0.8.7 and lirc-0.9.0?
>> 
>> 0.9.0.
>> 
>>> I've tried both versions. I'm getting /dev/lircd
>>> and /etc/lirc/lirc.conf, but no /dev/lirc, or lirc0, or anything
>>> similar.
>>> 
>>> Do you have any ideas?
>> 
>> Sounds like maybe the lirc bridge driver isn't available in your
>> kernel. What output do you get for:
>> 
>> $ modinfo ir-lirc-codec
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> 
>>> Is there some peculiarity with the 2.6.38-1-amd64 kernel?
>> 
>> Don't know, that's a distro kernel for a distro I don't run.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 14:17 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>> On Apr 16, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Marc Hurst wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks Jarod. Again, please excuse my ignorance. What am I doing wrong?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. I copied lirc.conf.streamzap to /etc/lirc/lirc.conf
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2. Enabled the lirc bridge driver and disabled in-kernel decoding by
>>>>> executing
>>>>> # echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
>>>>> 
>>>>> 3. Started lircd by executing 
>>>>> # lircd
>>>>> 
>>>>> 4. Tried to test with
>>>>> # mode2
>>>>> However, mode2 gives these messages:
>>>>> mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
>>>>> mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory
>>>> 
>>>> That means "no such file /dev/lirc". Its probably /dev/lirc0.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 5. Than I tried 
>>>>> # mode2 --device=bridge
>>>>> and
>>>>> # mode2 --device=streamzap
>>>>> In each case mode2 gives a long list of available drivers that does not
>>>>> include bridge or streamzap.
>>>> 
>>>> mode2 --device=/dev/lirc0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 15:12 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> On Apr 12, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Marc Hurst wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you for responding Jarod.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sure, but please keep the conversation on the mailing list. There
>>>>>> may be others with similar questions and/or additional feedback.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Please excuse my ignorance of linux and of IR.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I see that my 2.6.38 kernel contains a "streamzap.ko" driver. Does that
>>>>>>> mean that I don't need LIRC anymore?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes and no. You *can* use the Streamzap remote without anything
>>>>>> else, if the key mappings are all handled by your application.
>>>>>> But its quite likely it doesn't, as X gobbles up way too much of
>>>>>> the linux input keyspace (anything with a value > 255), in which
>>>>>> case, you probably still want to use lirc.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Can you point me to a HOWTO to explain how I can make use of the
>>>>>>> streamzap driver that ships with the kernal?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You have two choices:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1) enable the lirc bridge driver and disable in-kernel decoding
>>>>>> ('echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols', more or less) and
>>>>>> use it the same way you always have with lircd.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2) configure lircd via its devinput driver, attaching to the input
>>>>>> event device created by the streamzap driver.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 10:51 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Apr 9, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Marc Hurst wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The "streamzap" driver is not listed in the driver selection dialog of
>>>>>>>>> the lirc-0.9.0 setup.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I tried ./configure --with-driver=streamzap. Apparently the streamzap
>>>>>>>>> driver is not currently supported.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Please add the streamzap driver to lirc-0.9.0.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> No.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> http://lirc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lirc/lirc;a=commitdiff;h=a875cfd694ff9311e931e6cd363fdfaad8c4bc56
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=drivers/media/rc/streamzap.c;h=e435d94c0776d657403c391f6ca0b9877f100339;hb=HEAD
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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