Re: Streamzap not working lirc 0.7.2

[Greg W. <gr...@gr...>]

I have reached the end on this for now. I cannot get the Streamzap to
work, period. I have already purchased an IR keyboard/trackball that has
a receiver that plugs into the PS/2 ports and this works great. With
luck, I will be able to train one of the universal remotes from some of
the keys on the keyboard, enough to run my MythTV frontend.

I have lirc-0.7.2 (tarball downloaded from lirc.sourceforge.net and
compiled fresh) with kernel 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3. Here's the dmesg output
from "modprobe lirc_streamzap":

lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 
lirc_streamzap[-1]: Streamzap, Inc. Remote Control on usb3:3 attached
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
usbcore: registered new driver lirc_streamzap
lirc_streamzap $Revision: 1.12 $ registered
usb_unlink_urb() is deprecated for synchronous unlinks.  Use
usb_kill_urb() instead.
Badness in usb_unlink_urb at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:461 (Tainted:
PF    )
 [<c02c7d30>] usb_unlink_urb+0x98/0x9a
 [<dc9aaddb>] irctl_close+0x77/0xe3 [lirc_dev]
 [<c01785d7>] __fput+0xdc/0x10a
 [<c0176d13>] filp_close+0x3f/0x6f
 [<c010394d>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
usb_unlink_urb() is deprecated for synchronous unlinks.  Use
usb_kill_urb() instead.
Badness in usb_unlink_urb at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:461 (Tainted:
PF    )
 [<c02c7d30>] usb_unlink_urb+0x98/0x9a
 [<dc9aaddb>] irctl_close+0x77/0xe3 [lirc_dev]
 [<c01785d7>] __fput+0xdc/0x10a
 [<c0176d13>] filp_close+0x3f/0x6f
 [<c010394d>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb


To be honest, I don't really know if this means the driver is loading
properly or not, but lsmod shows lirc_streamzap is there. But, the
Streamzap simply does not work. I have tried it both with the lircd.conf
file and using to try and generate one, but nothing happens (irrecord
craps out due to no data for 10 seconds). The light blinks on receiver
when I press buttons, but lircd/irrecord sees nothing.

At one point the other night, I actually had irrecord working; I have
the output from it to prove it. But I have no idea what I did to make
that work, and even then, the resulting lircd.conf file did not work.
So, I have a working alternative and I don't want to beat my head
against this brick wall any more, so unless someone has a specific
suggestion that doesn't involve switching kernel versions, I give up.

--Greg