[pvrusb2] IR doesn't work
Miguel Sevillano
masevillano at gmail.com
Thu May 29 14:21:16 CDT 2008
Hello,
I've probed the two versions of lirc tarball (0.8.2pre2 and 0.8.3) and it
doesn't work. Debian doesn't provide an lirc_i2c module with his kernel
image, but it does provide i2c_dev, i2c-algo-bit, i2c-core modules. Can it
cause the problem?
Now I have another problem, because now it doesn't even create the fake
device. After installing the lirc tarball, reboot the machine (before
rebooting the machine, "/dev/lirc", "/dev/lircd" and "/dev/lircm" are
created), execute modprobe i2c_dev, modprobe i2c-algo-bit, modprobe lirc_i2c
and:
maradona:~# l /dev/li*
ls: /dev/li*: No such file or directory
May 29 20:57:19 localhost kernel: i2c /dev entries driver
May 29 20:57:43 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver
registered, major 61
May 29 20:57:43 localhost kernel: lirc_i2c: no version for
"lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel tainted.
May 29 20:57:43 localhost kernel: bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
May 29 20:57:43 localhost kernel: bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520
pages) each for capture
May 29 20:57:43 localhost kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded
I put here another file, if it can help:
maradona:~# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules
KERNEL=="lirc[0-9]*", NAME="lirc%n"
Can you help me?
Thanks
2008/5/25 Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Miguel Sevillano Torrado wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks for all of the information. I've looking for the LIRC driver and
> > I can't find the name you are saying. With the ./configure --help from
> > LIRC tarball, I can see this names:
> > all, none, userspace, accent, act200l,
> > act220l, adaptec, alsa_usb, animax, asusdh,
> > atilibusb, atiusb, audio, avermedia,
> > avermedia_vdomate, avermedia98, bestbuy,
> > bestbuy2, breakoutbox, bte, bw6130, caraca,
> > chronos, cmdir, comX, cph06x, creative,
> > creative_infracd, devinput, digimatrix, dsp,
> > dvico, ea65, exaudio, flyvideo, gvbctv5pci,
> > hauppauge, hauppauge_dvb,
> > hercules_smarttv_stereo, igorplugusb,
> > iguanaIR, imon, imon_24g, imon_knob,
> > imon_pad, imon_rsc, irdeo, irdeo_remote,
> > irman, irreal, it87, knc_one, kworld,
> > leadtek_0007, leadtek_0010, leadtek_pvr2000,
> > livedrive_midi, livedrive_seq, logitech,
> > lptX, macmini, mceusb, mceusb2, mediafocusI,
> > mouseremote, mouseremote_ps2, mp3anywhere,
> > nslu2,packard_bell, parallel, pcmak,
> > pcmak_usb, pctv, pixelview_bt878,
> > pixelview_pak, pixelview_pro, provideo,
> > realmagic, remotemaster, sa1100, sasem,
> > sb0540, serial, silitek, sir, slinke,
> > streamzap, tekram, tekram_bt829, tira,
> > ttusbir, tuxbox, tvbox, udp, uirt2,
> > uirt2_raw, usb_uirt_raw, usbx
> >
> > I'm sorry for my lack of knowledge, but I would choose the hauppauge
> > always... Can you tell what is the correct one?
>
> I just went back through the list archives and came across the same post
> you found. The dmesg clip from that post shows that it's the lirc_i2c
> driver that you (still) need, but the trick is to make sure you're
> running a recent enough version of LIRC. See further.
>
>
> >
> > I can tell you that the device has the IR blaster built in, because it
> > has a 1/8" jack on the front.
>
> Not surprised to hear this. It makes sense.
>
>
> >
> > I've probed with the standalone version of the pvrusb2 driver, instead
> > of the in-kernel version (by the way, my kernel version is 2.6.18), but
> > I can only see one /dev/lirc/0 device. Why doesn't appear the
> > other /dev/lirc/1 device, that is the correct one?
>
> Because LIRC has to find it and create the device.
>
>
> >
> > The versions I am using now:
> > kernel 2.6.18 (Debian 4.0 etch)
> > lirc-0.8.3 (tarball)
>
> Hmm, well now I'm confused. The report from a year ago specifies what
> appears to be an EARLIER version of LIRC that should work. The evidence
> in his post is pretty clear. Are you *sure* (!!) you are running the
> lirc_i2c driver built from that tarball?
>
>
> > standalone pvrusb2 version (20080420)
> >
> > I've read in http://www.isely.net/pipermail/pvrusb2/2007-May/001519.html
> > that it works (receiving) with this versions: 20070428a for pvrusb2 and
> > 0.8.2pre2 for lirc, so why I can't make it works with newer versions?
> > What I am doing wrong?
>
> Best I can tell you're doing things right here. That earlier post shows
> some pretty clear evidence that the normal lirc_i2c driver from LIRC
> 0.8.2pre2 found the newer chip and attached to it. Check to make sure
> you're really loading and running the lirc_i2c module from the tarball
> you installed (possibly your distribution has an older module already
> installed that you need to disable). Maybe you can try to install that
> *exact* version of LIRC and reproduce the same results? The version of
> the pvrusb2 driver should not matter at all since in this case the
> pvrusb2 is just a conduit not the actual IR driver.
>
>
> >
> > Can you help me?
> >
> > Also I've seen that I have a debian package liblircclient0.deb which
> > provides the
> > files /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0.1.0, /usr/lib/liblirc_client.la
> > and /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0. Can it interference with the binaries
> > compiled from the lirc-0.8.3 tarball?
> >
> > I am thinking also about upgrading to the unstable distribution of
> > Debian. Can it help?
>
> I have had nothing but rotten luck trying to get Debian's LIRC package
> to work. Understand that in my case I run custom kernels so I have to
> rebuild the LIRC drivers for my kernel and Debian's LIRC module build,
> well, sucks. It's been this way for a long time.
>
> If you don't need to build LIRC modules then the rest of the Debian LIRC
> stuff should be OK.
>
> Upgrading your entire installation to Debian Unstable is really
> overkill. Worst case you might want to go to the very lasted unstable
> LIRC packages from Debian but I wouldn't bother. Rather I suggest you
> work with the upstream LIRC package and just build it on your system.
> That's what I end up doing nearly every time here.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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