Ubuntu Multimedia :: 10.10 And Lirc Remote Not Working?
Feb 1, 2011
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and am trying to get lirc to recognize my pcusa mce remote control. I have been working on this for a week and have not had any success. Please note that I am very new to Linux. I am comfortable moving around in the terminal but most of anything else that I do in the terminal is just following instructions.
This is the remote that I am using:
[URL]
When I run
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I do not see anything that could be the remote. I have tried plugging the USB receiver into my Ubuntu 10.10 net book but it doesn't see the receiver either. I do not have a windows machine that I can test the remote on but I plugged the receiver into my iMac and I did get a red LED lit that I haven't seen on the Ubuntu machines.
When I run irw and press buttons on the remote I see nothing on the terminal.
When I run:
sudo mode2
I get:
mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory
I have tried mode2 both with lirc running and stopped and I get the same response either way.
I have confirmed that there is no /dev/lirc but there is a lircd in /dev (it's not a directory). Also I had read somewhere that lirc doesn't work under Ubuntu 10.10. Is that the case?
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Mar 16, 2010
I've bought this remote control that sais it works in Vista, XP etc. without any driver. Basically it has a bunch of buttons that replace the mouse and a bunch of others that replace basic keyboard functions (arrows, enter, escape). It has a USB IR receiver so I thought I could simply use it as a lirc remote in Ubuntu.
However, it sais absolutely nothing on it except for "PCremote" so during lirc installation I have no idea what to choose. And, interestingly, I accidentally discovered that it works in Ubuntu, too, out of the box. Controlling the mouse and acting like a keyboard. Is there a way I can forfeit current functionality and just get it to work as a customizable lirc remote? Or even better, keep current functionality but change it only for certain apps (xbmc, vlc etc)?
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# irsend SEND_ONCE DSTV9110 1 2 3
tail -f /var/log/syslog
Feb 15 00:56:56 MalutiPVR2 lircd-0.8.7-pre3[10127]: lircd(default) ready, using /var/run
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[ 378.197085] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038
[ 378.197101] IP: [<f953af51>] store_protocols+0x91/0x390 [ir_core]
[ 378.197119] *pde = 6f07b067
[ 378.197126] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
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If i type the command "cat /dev/input/event6" in my terminal I can see that all my remote control buttons give a signal, but still I can't figure it out how can I set up all of them.
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description: Desktop Computer
product: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
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Code:
#!/bin/sh
#irexec -d
#OR
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Here is what irw shows:
0000000029a3d5b7 00 MyDVD iMON-PAD
0000000029a3d5b7 00 MyDVD iMON-PAD
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000000002ba385b7 00 Menu iMON-PAD
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Code:
MPlayer dev-SVN-r32749-4.4-openSUSE Linux 11.2 (i686)-Packman (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
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mplayer: No such file or directory
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Playing somefile.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
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Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec
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Code:
kalle@hoppers:~> file somefile.wmv
somefile.wmv: Microsoft ASF
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Code:
kalle@hoppers:~> grep h264enc /var/log/zypp/history
2011-01-15 20:11:53|install|h264enc|9.2.4-0.pm.1.1|noarch|root@hoppers|Packman|c5bd1d534726472929134e5acc8f66492c52c51b
2011-01-20 22:06:20|remove |h264enc|9.2.4-0.pm.1.1|noarch|root@hoppers
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Code:
kalle@hoppers:~> xine somefile.wmv
Dies ist xine (X11 gui) - Ein freier Video-Player v0.99.6.
(c) 2000-2007 Das xine Team.
[wmv3 @ 0x8f78060] Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0
xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP.
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[url]
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Code:
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