IR-REMOTE on Audigy2 Platinum LiveDrive - a little HowTo (incl. a remote-cfg for rm1000)

[Thomas S. <ts...@de...>]

Hi,

today I get lirc running with livedrive from my brandnew Audigy2
Platinum.

First step - running alsa :)
I use the latest version from the alsa-cvs - outchecked today
(March, 17, 2003). Inside alsa-kernel-dir you can find the latest
emu10k1_main.c - cvs-version 1.23 is patched for audigy-ir-support (:
Compile the driver ( I don't give some options - build all driver )
with cvscompile inside the dir alsa-driver. After this you must
make install.
The important change is in the /etc/modules.conf - set here:
options snd-emu10k1 index=0 extin=0x3fcf extout=0x1fcf enable_ir=1
Last step here is to run alsa.

Second step:
Compile the latest cvs-version from lirc - first you must run
autogen.sh inside the lirc-src-dir. Next step: ./configure and
under hardware -> midi your choice must be audigy.
After this runs make and make install.
Last Step - is to setup the right midi-interface for lirc:
The default device is /dev/midi00 - but with this device lircd
don't receive anything. Here you must use the device /dev/snd/midiC0D1
To check the lircd running following cmd:
lircd -n -H livedrive -d /dev/snd/midiC0D1
Now you can see some output with irw :)
Press CTRL-C to stop the lircd - and copy the attached file lircd.conf
for the complete rm1000-remote-control at /etc/lircd.conf.
Last step is to setup an shellscript to start lirc at booting with:
lircd -H livedrive -d /dev/snd/midiC0D1
Thats all :)

On my box the audigy2 platinum with livedrive runs with this
configuration and linvdr very nice and stable.

Hope its a little help for other peopel :)
Bye
Thomas