I demand that Kevin Page may or may not have written... > I'm running a pretty standard Fedora 7 box with MythTV. Recently my remote > control, plugged into a SAA7146 era Nova-T, stopped working. [snip] > After much searching, I tried enabling the ir_debug option on the budget_ci > module. This showed me that the ir signals were still being received, but > for some reason were no longer generating input events to be picked up by > lirc. > I then looked at the rc5_device parameter. This was, by default, set to -1. > If I changed it to 255/"any device" then keycodes are generated and lirc > works again. Hmm. Strange... > A few questions: > 1) Is -1 the "autodetect" value for rc5_device? If so, which remote should > be autodetected for the Nova-T? (I have both the smaller black Hauppauge > remote, and a black/grey one - neither worked by default) -1 is autodetect, meaning whatever is correct for the remote control which is normally supplied with the DVB device. For your Nova-T, this should be causing 0x1F to be used. > 2) How do I work out the value of rc5_device for my remotes? I've found > mention of looking at the ir_debug output, but no instruction of how to > interpret it. It's described in the comments within msp430_ir_interrupt (media/dvb/ttpci/budget-ci.c). Look at the lower 5 bits of the bytes with bit 6 clear; it might help to report output from "lspci -nv" for the card. > 3) Would this change have hit mainline kernels fairly recently - perhaps > between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23? I'm wondering if this is a full or partial > explanation of the breakage. No idea - any breakage in budget-ci has gone unnoticed here since I've not used that driver for some time. > 4) Does this mean I could expect the Nova-T receiver to work with an RC5 > protocol remote? For some reason I'd always thought it would only work with > the Hauppage supplied remote. Yes. It will pick up and process signals from Philips remote controls, for example. -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> I'd like to, but having fun gives me prickly heat. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
