I went the cowards way out. I bought a Lite-On SK-7100 (?) wireless IR keyboard. I will be programming it into my massive Sony RM-2100 remote (big sucker with touchpad screen, like a big tricorder). Just been to lazy to do it now that I can watch video's again on my TV.
On 5/31/05, Mario Limonciello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, > > I also have a new style MCE2005 remote There are several different > vendors that provide these remotes, so I sent in an extra vendor ID > for my remote to the person who did the patch allowing MCE2005 > remote's drivers to be built. His patch hasn't actually hit the lirc > patches because it apparantly can't coexist with the MCE2004 remote > driver. > > Now, I ran into the same blockade you did that it semi works, but not > nearly enough to be satisfactory. What did you do about it? I was > told to try a pre-emptive kernel, but that just jeopardized the > stability of my AMD64 system pretty badly. Did you find something > else that works? > > Mario > > On 5/31/05, James Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have that remote and I had a HUGE struggle with it. I am using FC3 > > on my FE and was using kernel 2.6.10-1.770 from ATRPMS. The > > pre-packaged lirc from ATRPMs didn't include the necessary driver for > > the newer style MCE remotes. I had to find the corrent source code > > for the ONE driver and compile a version of lirc against my current > > kernel. It semi-worked. I came to find out that my motherboard/usb > > controller (ohci I believe) had an issue with that kernel. It would > > cause the receiver to work SOMETIMES but not often enough. After > > reboots it would disappear. I was told that a newer kernel should fix > > the issue. I noticed last week that Axel had upgraded the kernel on > > his site so I went about the process of upgrading and in the middle, I > > kinda fubar'd my setup. So I built from scratch. I don't know if > > lirc has been upgraded with this newer driver or not. Axel has told > > me he only builds "official" releases of packages (lirc, nvidia, etc). > > He doesn't include fixes. I will probably try again to get my MCE > > 2005 remote working. It might just be better if I went to GENTOO on > > my FE so that I compile everything from scratch just to make sure I > > can get exactly what I want in. That is a pretty huge step though > > from FC3. Good luck! > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
