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Installation issues / Re: Pleeeeassee help with MCE remote :-(

« on: September 20, 2007, 05:15:14 am »

Yeah!! it's working!!

Ok for anybody else having problems with their remote this is one thing to try:
Go to the CVS repository for lirc and search for some distinguishing feature from your 'lsusb' call..

eg. Download CVS snapshot: http://lirc.org/cvs.html
my 'lsusb' showed me: Bus 004 Device 007: ID 0609:0334 SMK Manufacturing, Inc.

Searching that for SMK: "grep -ri SMK *"

Saw that is it in lirc_mceusb2.c. Then you can go to the CVS site and run 'annotate' on the file to see which version has your remote added. Download that version of the file (in my case 1.30).  Download the src lirc from http://lirc.org/, copy in your version of the file and follow instructions.

Other stuff that I had to do: (I think this stuff is necessary anyway  ;-)
*  Linuxmce uses a wrapper call to start lircd. In order for linuxmce to use the new lircd you installed you must update the script at /etc/init.d/lirc with the script included with lirc src code (contrib/lirc.debian)
* cp the .rules file included in the lirc to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-lirc.rules (not sure if the numbers were necessary but all other rules had numbers). Change the "lirc/%n" to "lirc" (so the /dev will be created at /dev/lirc to make things easy)
* Looks like the src version of lircd looks at /etc/lircd.conf for the config file. I bet you can change that with a ./configure option but I just created a link to where the old version of lircd looked for the file (/etc/lircd/lircd.conf) just in case
* restarted!

Hope this helps! And thanks for all the help! 

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Installation issues / Re: Pleeeeassee help with MCE remote :-(

« on: September 18, 2007, 02:01:59 am »

Great!!!

Would it be possible to use apt-get to doiwnload lirc 8.2, replace lirc_usbmce2.c with version 1.30 and follow the steps here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty

or you think from source would be the best way?

Thanks again!

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Installation issues / Re: Pleeeeassee help with MCE remote :-(

« on: September 17, 2007, 03:25:57 pm »

Thanks for the replies!

Ok so reloaded a clean installation, then tried to load mce_usb2, but I got the same message about 'waiting for devices to start mce_usb' after a reboot.. then got a message about the functionality of the device may not work correctly.

Then I tried adding 'default' and a MCE remote and the same message came up about could not load 'default'!

The contents of /proc/usb/device is below.. I think the receiver is working ok, because I can see the light respond to button presses.

Even though it said it could not start mce_usb2 I did a lsmod and saw that is was running. I couldn't find anything named 'default' with lsmod so I'm not sure if it started anything.

dmesg showed me a little more this time:
[   65.545306] **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it!
[   65.548332] **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 1 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it!
[   65.551089] **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 2 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it!
[  142.326282] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
[  143.235966] ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free.
[  143.235972] ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
[  143.236455] ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free.
[  143.236459] ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe


(Interesting section of /proc/usb/bus/devices)
T:  Bus=04 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  3 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0609 ProdID=0334 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=SMK CORPORATION
S:  Product=MCE TRANCEIVR Emulator Device 2006
S:  SerialNumber=PA070417050404C
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  32 Ivl=2ms
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  32 Ivl=2ms


Thanks for your help!

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Installation issues / Pleeeeassee help with MCE remote :-(

« on: September 17, 2007, 03:53:12 am »

Hey guys,

  The installation went fine, but when I tried to add a remote in the Media Director I'm getting a message as the new Software is installed about 'mce_usb' not able to start correctly. I went back to the KDE-Desktop and did a 'lsmod' and saw lirc_mceusb running ok.. I tried to find the log file for starting that device, it complained about serials and needing rebooting (which I did many times)..

I did some reading on lirc.org and /dev/lirc is not getting created. Dmesg shows one funny message about a 'tainted' kernel but nothing else seems weird:
[  254.566705] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
[  254.591536] lirc_mceusb: no version for "lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel tainted.
[  254.595860] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_mceusb
[  254.595985] /home/blisha121/lirc-0.8.2/drivers/lirc_mceusb/lirc_mceusb.c: USB Microsoft IR Transceiver Driver v0.2

After working with this a while I re-installed fiesty without any linuxmce packages, followed the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty and still can't get /dev/lirc created. 'lsusb' shows the remote. and /dev/lircd is created. I read that it usually means your using the wrong drivers for your remote but I have the on the right (see http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote ) and it says 'lirc_mceusb' is the one to use.

After that installation didn't work I tried the instructions from lirc.org and still no /dev/lirc

I'm pretty sure the /etc/lirc/lird.conf file is correct also.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Anything would be MOST appreciated!
Thanks!