On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:59, Roh . wrote:just a little hint, but if you do want to use irda and lirc in the future, then use the irda port for irda and slap together a home-brew lirc reciever and use that on a serperate port. It saves alot of headaches in the future (and since ur irda chip supports FIR and you have the FIR front-end in the case, u might as well use it)
> do u want to use the irda port on ur m/b for lirc or irda? (i see alot of
> people confused about this)
I want to use the IrDA port on the MB for Lirc. (Although IrDA would be nice
to get working for other things).
> if for irda - use the irda modulesif your bios only has IRDA and ASKIR as format options, then use IRDA, to use the lirc_serial you need a bios setting for HPSIR, which most bios with irda have, if you cant select SIR or HPSIR then you might have to use the irda low-level driver with lirc suport on top (i did this once bout 6 months ago, i know irda module gets loaded first then a lirc_irda or something like that, instead of just the lirc_serial module.)
>
> if for lirc - use the lirc modules, u have to set ur bios settings to SIR
> (not FIR) and use the normail lirc_serial module (lirc cant work with any
> speeds above SIR)
I figured out the irda/lirc software difference after my first day of research. ^_^;; Now I'm concentrating on Lirc, but am still unsure what to do, or even if the MB IrDA is "standard".
I sent all the BIOS options this board has (see below). There's no reference
to SIR/FIR that I can see, unless they're labelled differently. Any ideas
what I should set it to?
if you can get SIR support on ur m/b, then you would load the lirc_serial module BEFORE the normal serial module is loaded (or unload it first). the lirc_serial module takes the norm options like:So, technically, all I should have to do is ise the lirc_serial module? Any idea how to figure out the IRQ/IO settings? Would it replace one of the existing 2 COM ports, or be the 3rd, or something different?
(taken from my modules.conf file) # LiRC setup # sense=1 active low | sense=0 active high alias char-major-61 lirc_serial #options lirc_serial irq=3 io=0x2f8 sense=1 options lirc_serial irq=3 io=0x2f8
io and irq are kinda easy to figure out :P
sense option is to force "active high" or "active low" reciever type, leave out the option for auto-sense.
(standard HPSIR should be "actve high", or low when idle, ASKIR mode will DESTROY a HPSIR only hardware so be carefull, actualy NEVER use ASKIR)
once lirc_serial is loaded ok, u can load the normal serial module, and you'll see one less serial port detected (since lirc has it)
Maybe I should try Googling the BIOS options I do have to see if another siteif you cant get the bios to setup the irda port to old SIR, then i think you'll have to use the irda driver instead of lirc_serial and use the lirc driver for irda, i know this works but not as experienced with it as lirc_serial so cant offer much more help with it)
has more info on what they mean...
> >I have a motherboard with a VIA P4M266 chipset (SFF eCube Chyang Fun case)
> >-
> >how the frell do I find out what driver I need to get Lirc working?
> >Everywhere just lists the IR functionality as "1xIR Port, IrDA 1.0/FIR
> >supported".
> >
> >The only mention of IrDA in the BIOS is the following settings:
> > UART Mode Select: Normal, IrDA, or ASKIR
> > RxD, TxD Active: Hi;Lo, Lo;Hi, Lo;Lo, or Hi;Hi
> > IR Transmission Delay: Enabled, or Disabled
> > UR2 Duplex Mode: Half, or Full
> > Use IR Pins: IR-Rx2Tx2, or RxD2TxD2
> >
> >Am I being overly optimistic about Lirc support for this board? Am I
> >missing
> >something obvious? I managed to get all the other on-board stuff working
> > no problems...
> >
> >Any hints & tips on getting Lirc working would be appreciated.
> >
> >The board is part of a SFF case
> >(http://www.chyangfun.com/Product/CF-S868.htm), which has the IR on the
> >front
> >panel - so it'd be really nice if I could get it working.
> >
> >Thanks...
hope that helps some,
cheers,
rohbags.
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