On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:33, 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)
I may go that way in the long run. It's just the Board/Case HAS the IR already, so I'm trying to make use of it. > if 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.) I haven't seen anything remotely like SIR or HPSIR in the BIOS though. Hmmm, maybe there's a BIOS upgrade available... *checks* Hmmm, doesn't seem to be. I'll try the latest BIOS just in case... > 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: Before. Ok. Will try. May have to recompile Serial as a module... > 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) *nod* > 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) > > if 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) > > hope that helps some, I'll give it a go. Thanks for the information! Gives me a bit more to go on... -- . Trevor Phillips - http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ . : Web Technical Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] : | IT Services - Murdoch University | >--------------------------------------------------------------------< | On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of / | course. But mostly evil, on the whole. / \ -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters) / ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
