2009-11-19, 20:46
won't get chance to do this tonight, will run these commands tomorrow.
marsjall Wrote:the bottom of my dmesg now says
Code:[93191.409817] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[93192.328025] lirc_serial: auto-detected active low receiver
[93192.328037] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
[93192.328190] lirc_serial $Revision: 5.104 $ registered
Quote:Dear Sir,
Thank you for contacting ASRock.
About the issue, we've contacted our device vendor to provide drivers for Linux.
We believed that they are still working on it, please check our website one a while for latest drivers update.
Thank you for your feedback and have a nice day.
Your Sincerely,
ASRock TSD
Quote:Hello,
I will check this with our headquarters in Taiwan. Hopefully they can get drivers from the manufacturer of the IR controller.
Would people within the Linux community be able to write their own drivers for this? If so, what kind of information would they need?
As you might have read already, the controller is a Nuvoton W836x7HG CIR device. Maybe you and some others with the same request can also contact Nuvoton directly. Maybe it will help to convince them to provide some solution.
As soon as I get some feedback from Taiwan I will let you know.
Best regards,
ASRock Support
BlueC Wrote:More (same) news from ASRock:
I think the lirc_serial module is the best bet. Has anyone else tried "modprobe lirc_serial" and then checked dmesg and /var/log/messages for any hopeful signs?
Nov 20 17:50:53 XBMCLive kernel: [ 130.884060] lirc_serial: auto-detected active low receiver
Nov 20 17:50:53 XBMCLive kernel: [ 130.884069] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
minifo Wrote:After running the "modprobe lirc_serial" you get "/dev/lirc0" but still the remote doesnt work.
marsjall Wrote:WLAN works fine under 9.10
I checked inside BIOS and found a CIR enable/disable-switch (it's enabled), so I guess the device is present.
The driver-CD that came with this unit have some windows-drives for the CIR-device.
relnote.txt inside the XP-folder says:
XP CIR driver for Nuvoton's W836x7HG CIR devices.
BlueC Wrote:Hmmm, but it creates the device in /dev so that makes me think the driver *does* work.
BlueC Wrote:Hmmm, but it creates the device in /dev so that makes me think the driver *does* work.
After the modprobe, can you try running "mode2" then button mashing the remote? Any joy?
Or maybe you need "mode2 --device=/dev/lirc0"
Any luck with that?
mode2: could not open /dev/lirc0
mode2: default_init(): Device or resource busy
marathont Wrote:I ran mode2 --device=/dev/lirc0
Code:mode2: could not open /dev/lirc0
mode2: default_init(): Device or resource busy
[ 20.582273] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
[ 20.592116]
[ 20.592122] lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transceiver and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC $Revision: 1.44 $
[ 20.592129] lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <[email protected]>, Martin Blatter <[email protected]>
[ 20.595399] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_mceusb2
[ 23.616300] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 23.616311] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 23.643265] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 25.170228] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 39.484019] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
xbmc@xbmc-htpc:~$ ls /dev/lirc*
/dev/lircd