[mythtvnz] MCEUSB IR Blaster problem after upgrade to Mythbuntu 11.04 and Kernel

[Tim Lockyer]

Ross

Thanks - I am thinking of going back to 10.10 - but it is such a lot of
work.

Tim

On 19 August 2011 12:16, Ross Williamson <ross at inertia.net.nz> wrote:

> > From that point on the MCEUSB IR Blaster stopped working. After
> > trying
> > a number of solutions I finally did a fresh installation of Mythbuntu
> > 11.04 - still no luck.
>
> I had huge issues with IR in general after upgrading to 11.04 (actually
> a fresh copy). It would respond to the MCEUSB remote but completely
> stopped receiving IR commands for any other remote (important as I also
> use it as an IR sender to equipment in another building). IR blasting
> appeared to work however.
>
> irw failed to see any of the keypresses. I fiddled with config and
> kernel modules and settings and lirc versions for about 6 hours before
> giving up and going back to 10.10 with latest mythtv ppa. The same
> config on there worked perfectly, first time.
>
> They appear to have done significant work to how IR works in the latest
> kernel and I would suspect this is the reason.
>
> Sorry I can't be of more help, but I've been there and it is somewhat
> fresh in my memory as being a very painful experience. I'll be very
> interested if you find a solution as obviously I can't stay on old
> versions forever.
>
> Ross
>
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Dr Tim Lockyer
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