Bug#790969: [Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#790969: Bug#790969: Same here...

[Alec Leamas]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 18:07:34 +0200 Alec Leamas  wrote:
>
>
> On 03/07/16 11:21, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> > I did as described and could reproduce the bug. Both the debug messages
> > and irrecord claiming it cannot find any toggle mask. What now?
> >

This might be a new change in the kernel output. See 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360688. According to this, 
it should work using kernel 4.4.7 or earlier.




Cheers!

--alec

Bug#790969: [Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#790969: Bug#790969: Same here...

[Alec Leamas]

On 03/07/16 11:21, Andreas Heinlein wrote:

I did as described and could reproduce the bug. Both the debug messages
and irrecord claiming it cannot find any toggle mask. What now?


First, since the bug is present also on 0.9.4 I filed an upstream bug 
[1]. If possible, I would appreciate if we could continue the discussion 
there.


Secondly, the logical step would be to use and check the kernel the 
original 3.16 jessie kernel - my gut feeling is that this is related to 
the kernel.


Third: could you please record one or two buttons (a few presses of each 
button) using mode2 and submit the mode2 output. Please mark each 
recording with the button used, and insert some newlines or so between 
each button press.


Cheers!

--alec


PS: Ashore just for a short time, returning to the sea ASAP. So, further 
replies might take some time, sorry.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790969

Bug#790969: [Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#790969: Bug#790969: Same here...

[Alec Leamas]

Hi!  On Phone now (sailing),  back later -Alec 

Andreas Heinlein  skrev: (3 juli 2016 11:21:29 CEST)
>I did as described and could reproduce the bug. Both the debug messages
>and irrecord claiming it cannot find any toggle mask. What now?
>
>Greets,
>Andreas
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Bug#790969: [Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#790969: Same here...

[Andreas Heinlein]

I did as described and could reproduce the bug. Both the debug messages
and irrecord claiming it cannot find any toggle mask. What now?

Greets,
Andreas

Bug#790969: [Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#790969: Same here...

[Alec Leamas]

On 26/06/16 17:01, Andreas Heinlein wrote:

I came acrosss this bug since it describes exactly my problem - except
that I can rule out any hardware fault.

My setup is working fine under Ubuntu 12.04 with Kernel 3.13 and LIRC
0.9.0. I installed Debian 8.5 on the same machine on another partition,
using the same lircd.conf and getting exactly the problems that are
describe above. I am using kernel 4.6 from jessie-backports.

I too have a One4All remote, namely URC-6440.

I would be glad to help solve this problem, as it is a real show-stopper.


So, it's not about the hardware. The culprit is then most likely the 
kernel, there are changes made  in the IR subsystem.


Unfortunately, the 0.9.0 version is really old. The current version is 
0.9.4, but this is not officially yet packaged for Debian. If you want 
to help tracking down this the first step would be to update to 0.9.4 so 
we have some fresh code to start with. The upstream release [1] contains 
a debian source package which hopefully can be used to update.


However, be aware the 0.9.4 is quite a different beast than 0.9.0. In 
particular, the configuration has changed. Please read the 
debian/README.Debian file as a starter after unpacking the tarball as 
described in README.md.


If you can reproduce the bug on 0.9.4 we have a reasonable start to 
track this down. If we are lucky, the update might even solve the 
problem. Don't hold your breath, though.


Cheers!

--alec


[1] 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lirc/files/LIRC/0.9.4/lirc-debian-src-0.9.4-1.1.tar.gz

Bug#790969: Same here...

[Andreas Heinlein]

I came acrosss this bug since it describes exactly my problem - except
that I can rule out any hardware fault.

My setup is working fine under Ubuntu 12.04 with Kernel 3.13 and LIRC
0.9.0. I installed Debian 8.5 on the same machine on another partition,
using the same lircd.conf and getting exactly the problems that are
describe above. I am using kernel 4.6 from jessie-backports.

I too have a One4All remote, namely URC-6440.

I would be glad to help solve this problem, as it is a real show-stopper.