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jarrett

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From: On my chair

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 15

Remote not working

Hi
So my remote worked the first time I booted my Arch installation... irw showed button presses. After fiddling around with LIRC and installing XBMC the remote stopped working.
This exact same thing happened yesterday too after a clean installation of arch.

My computer that I'm working with this on is a EEEBox EB1501p. It has a ASUS remote. (Works great with XBMCBuntu).
I'm at a loss. I have given up trying to solve this on my own.
irw shows nothing. mode2 shows nothing. irrecord is not recording anything.

[root@xbmc-1501 ~]# ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event0) with:
	Driver ite-cir, table rc-rc6-mce
	Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other
	Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other
	Name: ITE8713 CIR transceiver
	bus: 25, vendor/product: 1283:0000, version: 0x0000
	Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms

root@xbmc-1501 ~]# dmesg | grep CIR
[    4.916438] ite_cir: Auto-detected model: ITE8713 CIR transceiver
[    4.916442] ite_cir: Using model: ITE8713 CIR transceiver
[    5.306921] input: ITE8713 CIR transceiver as /devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input0
[    5.306944] rc0: ITE8713 CIR transceiver as /devices/virtual/rc/rc0

[root@xbmc-1501 ~]# cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=1283 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="ITE8713 CIR transceiver"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=100013
B: KEY=fff 0 0 200 108fc32e 2376051 0 0 0 7 158000 4192 4001 8e9680 0 0 10000000
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (ite-cir)"
P: Phys=/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd mouse0 event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=100017
B: KEY=30000 0 7 ff87207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: REL=3
B: MSC=10

my lircd.conf includes the lircd.conf.mceusb file.

What should I try to do now?

jarrett

Member

From: On my chair

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 15

Re: Remote not working

rmmod ite-cir and modprobe ite-cir and then restarting the lirc service seems to work. But why isn't it working directly on booting the system?

jarrett

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From: On my chair

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 15

Re: Remote not working

So, I ended up doing a ugly 'hack'.
In the service file of xbmc I first run rmmod ite-cir and then modprobe ite-cir before starting xbmc. Works until I figure something else out. Going to leave it like this for now.

If anyone knows what the problem is and why this method works - let me know!