[jpmur]

Hello,

I have a partition with ubuntu 9.04 and an old xbmc : the remote is working.
On a new partition, I have ubuntu 10.10 and xbmc 10.1 : same remote is not working.
I read many threads about lirc but still not working.

In ubuntu 9.04, I checked and I did not change anything in configuration files.
But it did not worked straightforward with this new version.

So I followed this : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/...ks-843751/
or this one : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p...ost9984844


It is an MCE compatible remote (with rc6 receiver).

Lirc version : 0.8.7~pre3
I had to remove lirc-module-sources to have a device /dev/lirc0 (or else none is created)

Code:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (147a:e017)"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=fff 0 0 0 108fc326 2176041 0 0 0 0 118000 4180 100001 9e9680 0 0 10000000

Code:

lsusb
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 147a:e017 Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc. eHome Infrared Receiver

So all of these did not help :
- using event6 or "Windows Media center..." in lirc configuraton
- blacklisting or not lirc_mseusb
- modifying or not /etc/init.d/lirc with "for protocol ...mceusb"
- modifying or not /etc/lirc/hardware.conf with LOAD_MODULES="false"

Any idea is welcome.

JP

[deppan]

Use 10.04 instead.

[jpmur]

Great !

It worked as soon as I installed lirc under 10.04 .

Thanks very much.

Now I have work to configure all the stuff...

JP

[danpritts]

Use 10.04 instead.

Of course, it didn't work for me, with my hardware (rosewill wmc remote from newegg) until i did 10.10.

Adding this so that anyone else who sees this later, so that they know that there's nothing magic about 10.04's lirc; apparently both have issues.