problems on edgy with AOpen xc cube ea65

[Tom L. <tf...@gm...>]

On 4/20/07, Jeff <jef...@co...> wrote:
> hello all. I'm still having some difficulty getting lirc to work on
> ubuntu 6.10 with the asus dh remote.
>
> I installed the package from source. Then ran:
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start
>
> and get:
>
> Starting lirc daemon: lircd.
>
> then terminal returns.
>
> then i type:
>
> irw
>
> and the terminal returns immediately.

I'd bet the problem you're seeing is at least similar to the one I'm having.

I have an AOpen XC cube ea65 running Kubuntu Edgy and I'm having an
issue getting lirc up and running.

I've downloaded the source deb, configured it for the ea65 driver, and
done a make install.  All seemed fine initially, but I've noticed that
no /dev/lirc was created.

Running lircd in nodaemon mode with driver=ea65 results in a failure
to find /dev/lirc when irw tries to connect.  lircd then segfaults (so
irw returns to prompt without being able to see any input).

I've tried creating /dev/lirc myself, and /dev/lirc0 etc., using mknod
and setting the permissions myself, although I don't really understand
what I'm doing there.

dmesg doesn't appear to report any LIRC related failures.

In /etc/lirc/hardware.conf I didn't add anything to the MODULES config
parameter as the ea65 driver shouldn't require any additional kernel
modules (unless I've misread something).  I also tried with the DRIVER
parameter both specified as ea65, and unspecified.

One thing I did read was that it was possible that i2c_core might
interfere with LIRC.  I tried a modprobe -r i2c_core but as it's in
use I couldn't unload it.  Wasn't really sure how to proceed from
there.

The ir_common module isn't loading (not that it should be - just
trying to rule it out as a possible cause).

I'd appreciate any assistance as after several hours combinatorically
applying the strategies in various installation guides I'm beginning
to lose heart :-)

Tom