Getting the ASrock 330HT to work with Ubuntu 11.04(+LIRC+XBMC)

[Thomas N. <th...@xy...>]

Hello!

I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty which was released the other day.
After the upgrade my remote stopped working.

I've searched around a bit and found a page[1] instructing me to
upgrade to lirc 0.9x to get it fully working.

I downloaded from git and got 0.9.1-git (110429). Wasn't able to
figure out what to choose in setup.sh but manually changed the
configure.sh-script to --driver=devinput as I have read somewhere that
I should use.

Driver loading in dmesg output:

[    8.827892] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
[    8.836586] IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
[    8.854161] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
[    8.863126] IR JVC protocol handler initialized
[    8.868158] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
[    8.868538] input: Nuvoton w836x7hg Infrared Remote Transceiver as
/devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input4
[    8.868790] rc0: Nuvoton w836x7hg Infrared Remote Transceiver as
/devices/virtual/rc/rc0
[    8.870998] IR Sony protocol handler initialized
[    8.880616] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 250
[    8.884836] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (nuvoton-cir)
registered at minor = 0
[    8.884847] IR LIRC bridge handler initialized
[    8.892146] nuvoton_cir: driver has been successfully loaded

Started up lirc with a lircd.conf including
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput and a
hardware.conf like this (from here[2]):

REMOTE="Linux input layer (/dev/input/eventX)"
REMOTE_MODULES=""
REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/event4"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""
TRANSMITTER="None"
TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""
TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""
START_LIRCD="true"
START_LIRCMD=""
LOAD_MODULES=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""
FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"

If I do 'irw' I get nothing.

If I test with ir-keytable I can clearly see that the remote is
working though so I think my config is wrong?


$ sudo ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event4) with:
	Driver nuvoton-cir, table rc-rc6-mce
	Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
	Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
	Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 33 ms

$ sudo ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
1304107612.390362: event MSC: scancode = 800f241f
1304107612.513385: event MSC: scancode = 800f241f
1304107613.161091: event MSC: scancode = 800f241e
1304107613.284564: event MSC: scancode = 800f241e
1304107613.706064: event MSC: scancode = 800f241f
1304107613.829108: event MSC: scancode = 800f241f
1304107614.138192: event MSC: scancode = 800f241e
1304107614.261659: event MSC: scancode = 800f241e

I previously had Ubuntu 10.10 but with a custom kernel with nuvoton
support. I had one problem there, wakeup didn't work as it did with
Asrock's driver. Is this (was this) a problem with nuvoton_cir? The
only thing I did to get that to work before was 'echo CIR >
/proc/acpi/wakeup'.

Many thanks in advance if someone can help!

Rgds//Thomas

1. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=99366
2. http://old.nabble.com/Running-LIRC-on-Asus-barebone-(Linux-2.6.37-12-)-td30800194.html