Re: lirc 0.8.1: homebrew serial receiver not working at all

[Andreas M. <and...@st...>]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:13:31PM +0100, Ernst Bachmann wrote:
> On Dienstag, 13. Februar 2007, Andreas Messer wrote:
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> > compile on 2.6.20 with some modifications. mode2 didn't print anything
> > again. dmesg outputis similar to above.
> > Any ideas with this? Perhaps there are known issues with my hardware?
> > (NForce2 Chipset) But I think its a lirc bug.
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> I noticed a similar behavior (also an nforce chip). Unloading the 8250_pn=
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> module seems to shutdown the serial port completely. The pnp core modules=
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> would display an message "pnp: Device 00:07 disabled." then.
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> So my guess would be that the lirc_serial module doesn't call all neccess=
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> PNP/ACPI/Power Mgmt functions needed to keep the serial port up and runni=
ng.
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> My solution: just keep 8250_pnp in memory, and "setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart=
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> none" prior to loading lirc_serial.

Thank you very much, this solved the problem. Everything is now working
fine.

Andreas
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