Newbie -> iMON Pad and VFD

[firefist235]

Hi all,

i just bought a SilverStone GD01B-MXR with an iMON Pad an built in IR/VFD.

The Pad worked out of the box like a mouse, cursor steering works, left and right clicks are working too. But if i press any other button, the remote does not work any further, so i have to restart my hybrid to get the remote working again.

I read many other topics and searched in google for my problem but i can't get it running like it should.

The VFD doesn't work at all, except the backround light. I also searched a few topics for this, but my display won't display anything 

Can someone PLEASE give me a walkthrought?
I am a totally linux newbie so a step-by-step description would be great.

*staying hopefully*

[WhateverFits]

Well, if it is acting like a keyboard then maybe xkbevd from xkbutils package will give you more information. If it is using lirc, then lirc.org should help debug it.

[tschak909]

Guys, we need proper device templates for the iMON. Does somebody want to take this on?

-Thom

[firefist235]

Well, if it is acting like a keyboard then maybe xkbevd from xkbutils package will give you more information. If it is using lirc, then lirc.org should help debug it.

its not acting like a keyboard, it acts like a mouse

ADD: i think that LIRC doesn't work.
when i type mode2 (in putty) i get this:

Code:

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ mode2
mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory

if i type irw to test my remote:

Code:

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ irw
connect: No such file or directory

[gumis]

What version of iMON do you have?

I own 15c2:0038 (IR/LCD) and it's a trouble maker...

TO get this one going I had to manualy build lirc and LIRC_DCE from lmce source.

Have a look on my post: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6724.msg55615#msg55615

[firefist235]

i own this one too

[gumis]

So you'll need to do exactly the same thing...

Re-compile lirc to at least 0.8.4a version. As far as i remember that's when support for iMON pad starts.

When you do that, make sure that lirc creates two lircX instances under /dev. To check that execute this command:

ls -al /dev/ | grep lirc

you should see something like:

...
/dev/lirc0
/dev/lirc1
...

and that's the problem. iMON 0038 creates two instances of /dev/lircX.

Now you'll need to modify LIRC_DCE code and change default command that executes lircd for each remote from:

/usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0 /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

to something like:
/usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0 --pidfile=/var/run/lirc0.pid --listen=8765 /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
/usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1 --pidfile=/var/run/lirc1.pid --output=/dev/lircd --connect=localhost:8765 /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

(read about multiple remote controls supported by lircd)


I hope this will help.

[firefist235]

i just re-compiled LIRC (0.8.6) and when i type
ls -al /dev/ | grep lirc i get this, no lirc0 or lirc1

Code:

dcerouter_108888:/lirc# ls -al /dev/ | grep lirc
crw-r--r--  1 root   root     61,   0 2009-07-02 17:24 lirc
prw-r--r--  1 root   root           0 2009-07-02 17:24 lircd
prw-r--r--  1 root   root           0 2009-07-02 17:24 lircm

[firefist235]

i didn't get it working.
I have installed LinuxMCE all over so i can start from the beginning.

[firefist235]

i just compiled LIRC and installed it.
but i get this

Code:

dcerouter_116297:~# modprobe lirc_imon
FATAL: Error inserting lirc_imon (/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/misc/lirc_imon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

dmesg says this:

Code:

dcerouter_116297:~# dmesg |grep lirc
[   19.224000] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[   19.404000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_MASK
[   19.404000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_WORD
[   19.444000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_MASK
[   19.444000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_WORD
[  217.176000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_MASK
[  217.176000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_WORD
[  449.236000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_MASK
[  449.236000] lirc_imon: Unknown symbol BIT_WORD

[firefist235]

can someone please help.

[firefist235]

i give up.
i just searched in google to solve my problem, but nothing helped

[firefist235]

am i really the only one with this problem?

[aponcz]

firefist235 -

I too am having some issues with my IR/VFD (15c2:0038).  I have recompiled LIRC multiple times and when I download it from CVS I was getting the same errors as you were.  However, when I downloaded version 1.5 and modprobe lirc_imon was working fine however only /dev/lirc0 was listed and not /dev/lirc1.  After doing some reading, I hope it is related to my LIRC config file.

Any updates on your end?

[firefist235]

sorry no