My apologies I replied to the wrong thread :(
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:14:33 -0400
Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] cx18 analog cable problems
Well good news. I decided to bite the bullet and just do a reinstall of Fedora
and now things work. Thanks for the help.
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:20:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] cx18 analog cable problems
>
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 18:10 -0400, Dale Pontius wrote:
> > Andy Walls wrote:
> > > <deletia>
> > >
> > > The unfortunate problem is that the latest v4l-dvb branch is broken for
> > > LIRC. I2C subsystem changes in the latest kernels broke the interface
> > > LIRC used to hook up to I2C connected IR chips within V4L. I updated
> > > the cx18 driver to at least work with ir-kbd-i2c. LIRC is undergoing
> > > updates by Jarred Wilson, so that one day lirc_i2c and lirc_zilog (aka
> > > lirc_pvr150) will work again. See discussions within the past year on
> > > the linux-media and linux-kernel mailing lists.
> > >
> > > I need to do an analogous change for ivtv, but haven't gotten to it yet.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andy
> >
> > Can you help me understand why lirc_pvr150/lirc_zilog is not in the
> > mainline lirc?
>
> Nope. :)
>
> I suspect it has something to do with the "firmware" image that is
> extracted from the Windows driver.
>
>
> > I've gotten information on these from you before, and
> > I've downloaded them and fooled around a little, but really digging in
> > is still down a ways on my things-to-do list. Gentoo has has lirc at
> > 0.8.4 for a long time, and recently moved to 0.8.5. The lirc_pvr150
> > patch I saw was against some 0.8.5 version, and I've never actually seen
> > lirc_zilog, only heard about it.
>
> lirc_zilog is the new name for lirc_pvr150 that Janne and Jarod gave it
> when trying to get lirc into the kernel the first time. The Hauppague
> HD-PVR, for which Janne maintains the hdpvr driver, also has a Zilog Z8
> microcontroller for IR.
>
>
>
> > At least one reference was on lkml, so
> > it sounds as if there has been at least one attempt to get lirc into the
> > mainline kernel.
>
> Jarod's still working it.
>
> http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-lirc.git/?a=shortlog
>
> It looks like he just merged the recent kernel changes into his working
> lirc repository, so you'll have to scan through the summary for lirc
> related stuff. (If you care...)
>
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Dale
>
>
>
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