Re: lirc 0.8.7 Centos Hauppauge DVB-T & DVB-S2

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
>
>    
>> Ken Smith wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi, first post to this list, but been using Linux for ages. But I'm
>>> struggling with, what must be a simple configuration problem with lirc.
>>>
>>> I'd like to get lirc to work on a x64 Centos 5.6 based MythTV 0.24
>>> system. It has a PVR-350, two Nova T DVB and a DVB-S2 card.
>>>
>>> {snip spurious detail}
>>>
>>> cat /dev/input/event3 gives no output. But the above suggests that the
>>> hardware is working to some extent.
>>>
>>> I'm a bit stumped. Any suggestions....
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>        
>> {snip}
>>      
> Doesn't matter, its still wrong, and utterly useless regardless. You're
> not using an lirc kernel device driver here, you're using devinput. The
> problem appears to be that the cx88 IR driver isn't mapping IR signals
> to input events (thus the unknown key bits), so you're never going to
> get anything out of the event device. A less ancient kernel would likely
> work better.
>
>    
I know the kernel is ancient and a switch to a RHEL6 derivative is 
planned. It is a production server for much more than just Mythtv, and 
life is just too short to be constantly chasing FCxx releases.

I am puzzled, as I'm sure lirc worked way way back in 2.4.* days ( ref: 
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fc1myth.php#lirc ) are you saying there is 
now some incompatibility between the current v4l cx88 IR driver ( as 
compiled by Axel ) and the 2.6.18 kernel I'm currently using.

I'd like to understand as I have seen other threads asking similar 
things. Maybe a note on the lirc page to clarify might help folks who 
encounter this.

Thanks

Ken

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