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Hello.
I'm new to Arch which I've been trying to setup for my htpc which was running Mythubuntu 10.04 but, I've ran into a problem with lirc. I followed the arch wiki and googled and played with it for hours and I can't get it to work.
When I start it
/usr/sbin/lircd -n -d /dev/lirc0
lircd: lircd(default) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircdand try
irw
mode2 d- /dev/lirc0
cat /dev/lirc0I press buttons and get nothing. From what I've googled so far everyone was able to get some kind of output with those. :(
What am I doing wrong? I just have an mce remote (MediaGate GP-IR02BK) nothing special. The red led on the receiver lights up when I press buttons and I made sure it still works by testing on a Windows 7 box.
Here is some more information:
cat /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
include "/usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"lsmod
Module Size Used by
fuse 58669 3
ipv6 249260 16
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 20368 1
usbhid 31211 0
hid 63007 1 usbhid
rc_rc6_mce 1144 0
nvidia 10508189 30
snd_hda_intel 19261 0
snd_hda_codec 66793 2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 4919 1 snd_hda_codec
i2c_piix4 7124 0
snd_pcm 60311 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 15542 1 snd_pcm
ohci_hcd 19234 0
snd 43527 6 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,s nd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ehci_hcd 34847 0
ir_lirc_codec 3767 0
lirc_dev 7899 1 ir_lirc_codec
soundcore 5018 1 snd
evdev 7310 5
mceusb 9794 0
ir_sony_decoder 1847 0
agpgart 22160 1 nvidia
ir_jvc_decoder 1909 0
snd_page_alloc 5909 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usbcore 119004 5 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,mceusb
i2c_core 16665 2 nvidia,i2c_piix4
ir_rc6_decoder 2325 0
ir_rc5_decoder 1813 0
psmouse 55927 0
serio_raw 3430 0
ir_nec_decoder 2293 0
r8169 34923 0
sp5100_tco 3768 0
sg 21022 0
processor 21884 0
button 3654 0
pcspkr 1415 0
mii 3383 1 r8169
k10temp 2147 0
wmi 7367 0
rc_core 13136 9 rc_rc6_mce,ir_lirc_codec,mceusb,ir_sony_decoder, ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_nec_decoder
ext4 334626 3
mbcache 4321 1 ext4
jbd2 59098 1 ext4
crc16 1077 1 ext4
sr_mod 12956 0
cdrom 31341 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 25515 6
pata_acpi 2396 0
pata_atiixp 2928 0
ahci 18093 4
libahci 16581 1 ahci
libata 154349 4 pata_acpi,pata_atiixp,ahci,libahci
scsi_mod 110670 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libatalsusb
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 1784:0008 TopSeed Technology Corp. eHome Infrared Transceiverls /dev |grep lirc
lirc0
lircdI've notice I'll only seem to have the /dev/lircd if I start it with the rc script.
unplug and plugging the receiver
tail -20 /var/log/messages.log
Jun 26 21:25:08 localhost kernel: [ 31.241113] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Jun 26 21:25:09 localhost kernel: [ 32.116170] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Jun 26 21:25:09 localhost kernel: [ 32.120937] EXT4-fs (sdb1): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Jun 26 21:44:56 localhost -- MARK --
Jun 26 22:04:56 localhost -- MARK --
Jun 26 22:24:57 localhost -- MARK --
Jun 26 22:44:57 localhost -- MARK --
Jun 26 22:56:08 localhost kernel: [ 5491.812025] usb 6-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.449490] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device number 4 using ohci_hcd
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.606525] usb 6-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 endpoint 0x1 has an invalid bInterval 0, changing to 32
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.606529] usb 6-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 endpoint 0x82 has an invalid bInterval 0, changing to 32
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost mtp-probe: checking bus 6, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/usb6/6-1"
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.620536] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.620620] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1784:0008) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/rc/rc1/input6
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.620676] rc1: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1784:0008) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/rc/rc1
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.620753] rc rc1: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0
Jun 26 22:56:12 localhost kernel: [ 5495.620763] mceusb 6-1:1.0: Registered Topseed Technology Corp. eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb6:4
Jun 26 22:56:13 localhost mtp-probe: bus: 6, device: 4 was not an MTP device
Jun 26 22:56:13 localhost mtp-probe: checking bus 6, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/usb6/6-1"
Jun 26 22:56:13 localhost mtp-probe: bus: 6, device: 4 was not an MTP deviceuname -r && lircd -v
2.6.39-ARCH
lircd 0.9.0Any help would be much appreciated. I've exhausted all my ideas.
Last edited by Vortalex (2011-07-03 00:04:32)
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Try listing used and available protocols
ir-keytableRC-6 didn't work for me, had to change it to LIRC with
ir-keytable -p LIRCOffline
Sorry for the late reply. Thanks that did the trick.
[root@htpc ~]# ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event3) with:
Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
Enabled protocols: RC-6
Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 33 ms
[root@htpc ~]# ir-keytable -p LIRC
Protocols changed to LIRC
[root@htpc ~]# ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event3) with:
Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
Enabled protocols: LIRC
Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 33 msI noticed it doesn't stay after a restart. so I added that to rc.local
I realize now that I may have been close.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116515
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LI … ed_working
With this module, the kernel will treat your remote as a keyboard by default, which causes lircd to fail to recognize remote input. An easy way to verify this is to run irw and see if it recognizes remote input.
but I didn't have output so I moved on.
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