Re: Old Problem: Antec Veris Basic and LIRC..."claim" rejected

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

On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:09:18 Ken Kolbly wrote:
> Jarod,
>          I apologize for not updating you immediately when I got the new 
> information.
> 
>          My friend has an almost identical hardware setup (Same 
> motherboard, CPU and RAM, bought at the same time as mine.  Same iMon 
> receiver.) and he had the same problem with the IR receiver.  It was not a 
> big issue to him, because he was willing to use the keyboard to control his 
> box.  However, for other reasons, earlier this week he "nuked-and-repaved" 
> his system, installing CentOS.   The iMon was still getting claimed and he 
> did some research, discovering that the kernel "quirks" is apparently 
> broken in that version.

CentOS 4 or 5? Pretty sure quirking works just fine in 5, and if it
doesn't, then its a regression that ought to be fixed by Red Hat...

> HOWEVER
> 
> He also discovered that on my system, there were 2 digits switched on my 
> "quirks" command.   "152c" vs. "15c2"
> 
> I'm very annoyed with myself because I  **SPECIFICALLY** checked for that 
> and STILL missed it!

D'oh!

> (I guess that proves that I am truly dyslexic!)
> 
> Night before last, I corrected the error and lo and behold, usbhid no 
> longer claims my IR receiver!   I feel much better now!

Good deal. Maybe it was just 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 that were broken then.

> That is as far as I got.  Now I need to continue down-stream and get the 
> rest of Lirc working.

In theory, that part should be easy... Though I still need to put a
patch for the F10 2.6.27 kernel together, updating its lirc drivers to
something that works with lirc 0.8.5+... :\

> I will keep you posted.  Thank you for your support and guidance so 
> far.  I'm sure I'll need more later!

We'll be here...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
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