[pvrusb2] IR receiver does not see anything

[Siddhartha Jain]

On 5/13/07, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2007, Siddhartha Jain wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the pointer, Mike. Yes, I do have one of those new units
> > with the IR blaster. So from your earlier post, I understand that you
> > intend to stop supporting the IR function in the pvrusb2 driver and
> > leave it to the lirc project?
>
> You make it sound like a bad thing.

That wasn't my intention :) I just wanted to know where to direct my
attention - pvrusb2 or the lirc_i2c module.

I fully understand and appreciate that you want to leave the IR part
to the lirc project where it is best handled.

>
> >
> > I did compile lirc-0.8.2-pre2 but haven't had success with that either
> > yet :( So I will keep trying that and post to the lirc list.
>
> It would probably also be useful to post here specifically what you did
> to get it working, once you have it working.  (Or for that matter, hint,
> hint, anyone else who has walked through the process of getting the new
> IR receiver working with lirc would be welcome to post details here...)
>

I sure will do that. Right now, I am trying to disable the IR portion
of the kernel's in-tree pvrusb2 module by passing this in
modprobe.conf:
options pvrusb2 ir_mode=0

And got this in dmesg:
pvrusb2: Unknown parameter `ir_mode'

So I went to the source
[root at linpvr pvrusb2]# pwd
/usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2

[root at linpvr pvrusb2]# grep ir_mode *

Returns nothing.

I checked the standalone version and saw that the ir_mode option does
exist in there. Any specific reason to exclude it from the in-tree
version?

Is it absolutely necessary to disable the IR function in pvrusb2 to
get lirc_i2c working (which shows up as /dev/lirc1 and I still haven't
been able to get it working).

- Siddhartha


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