[SOLVED] lirc and nuvotron-cir driver

[zeke]

I am running Mageia on an ASRock 330HT NVidia-ION system. It comes with the Nuvoton w836x7hg IR receiver and a mceusb style remote.

I am trying to get the remote working, but have had no luck so far.

the nuvoton-cir driver is in the kernel and is loaded, and I have tried several different lircd.config files, changed hardware profile line in /etc/sysconfig/lircd. Still I can't get any response from irw

So I think it may be related to the point X3lectric makes in this post.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=814625

I have tried to compile the sensor drivers as described in the page linked from his sig inthe xbmc forum, but it fails, missing headers (I have the kernel-devel rpm installed).

KDElirc sees remotes and I can configure them, but there is no response - i presume for the same reason irw is not seeing any signal.

I am running the current repo version of lirc (0.8.7 IIRC) and kernel-desktop586-current.

Any help would be much appreciated...hopefully someone out there has much more understanding of lirc than I do!

[djennings]

There are problems with lirc-0.8.7-1 in Mageia 1 It is incompatible with the 2.6.38 kernel in Mageai 1
See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265
I resolved the problem by building an RPM for lirc-0.9.0 which works for me.
I could share the rpm with you, but it is for x86_64 architecture.

As a workaround you could try installing a kernel from Mandriva 2010.1 and install dkms-lirc so a kernel module gets built when you boot into the Mandriva kernel.

[zeke]

Thanks, at one time I thought I had read about problems with lirc<0.9, but then others (on other distros) were getting it to work.

I am downloading the x64iso, and will install tonight. Assuming I can get huludesktop to run, I have no problem moving this machine to 64bit, and would very much appreciate your rpm!

I gave some thought to compiling myself, but couldn't figure out how to specify the correct driver in the precompile lirc configuration.

[djennings]

You can find lirc 0.9.0 at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/285824/lirc-0.9.0-1dj1.x86_64.rpm
You will also need dkms-lirc to build the kernel module
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/285824/dkms-lirc-0.9.0-1dj1.x86_64.rpm

The rpms are unsigned so do not be surprised if you get a warning from urpmi when you install them.

Hope it works for you

[zeke]

Brilliant!

Worked great. Have you been able to remap the OK key to Enter though?
The original lircd.conf file had these mappings:

OK 0x00007bdd
Enter 0x00007bf4

I changed OK to 0x00007bf4, but no dice.

I don't really understand these mappings as ir-keytable outputs different signals from these keys when I press them.

Finally, I am still trying to get the suspend working. I created a /etc/pm/sleep.d file, and modified the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file as described in this thread:

(I changed the driver from lirc_wb677 to lirc_dev), and it wakes, but won't sleep.

Thanks again djennings, this is the best I have had this box functioning since I got it almost a year ago!!!!

[djennings]

Jolly good.

Your lirc mappings will depend on your control. I got mine from a link on the MythTV wiki. There is good advice there even if you are not using MythTV
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/LIRC

[zeke]

This can be marked as solved!

Thanks to Thomas Bonell on the lirc listserv for the solution:

To do so I had to do the following:

1. Install LIRC 0.9.0 (from a RPM built for myself).

2. Configure LIRC daemon properly, with this /etc/sysconfig/lircd: http://pastebin.com/42iUnd7S

3. Configure LIRC remote properly, with this /etc/lircd.conf: http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/dev ... f.devinput

4. Restart LIRC. At this point, you should be able to talk to your remote through LIRC, you can check this by executing irw.



5. I do not know if this change affects the final result, but I did anyway. You must tell Xorg to ignore the remote control, otherwise they would handle it as a keyboard. How? Adding the file / usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-quirks.conf with this content: http://pastebin.com/Nwje38mP

6. In my own case, I use the remote control to handle XBMC. I had to change Lircmap.xml according the new configuration of the remote. I added to my /usr/share/xbmc/system/Lircmap.xml this lines: http://pastebin.com/1wYQ2hCV

7. Enjoy!

[Annubis]

Hey! I'm Tomàs Deltell, not Thomas Bonell