I spent quite a few days working out exactly how to get the remote working for my mythtv xbox on a stock Gentoox 5.0 Home. There are quire a few diffrent ways, a whole lot of outdated information and alot of stuff that refuses to compile with more modern software/kernel2.4
Getting the ALSA 1.0.11 modules to work on a 1.6 with Gentoox Home 5.0
My xbox was giving me error when i attemped to modprobe the required modules, solution is to use the xbox.patch not xbox2.patch.
I cant "fix" this, because it seems one patch is needed for Xbox <=1.6 and another for Xbox >=1.6 - this is why I created both patches... I guess I'll look into it to see if that is true.
I tried that guide and the remote is still not working
Also, I had to do a "emerge --digest lirc" to update the Manifest after modifying the file...
- Otherwise emerge would halt saying that the files had been tampered with...
Anyhow, lirc is still not working (after I modprobe'd there's no /dev/lirc/0)
tail from dmesg:
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_atiusb: USB remote driver for LIRC v0.5
lirc_atiusb: Paul Miller <pmiller9@users.sourceforge.net>
usb.c: registered new driver lirc_atiusb
Btw, I'm trying to get lirc working to use it later in mythtv... that excludes lirc 0.6.6 right?
For all those wondering... ALSA has been fixed - you need to first run magic, then run "emerge alsa-driver-xbox" (this was posted as front-page news... but you may have missed it).
b8zs wrote:Anyone get LIRC working with the microsoft dvd remote? I cant get the device created no matter what I do
That's exactly what I did when I followed the guide's instructions with the changes I wrote about above...
- Then it all worked like a charm
Although, after getting it all working I realized that the XBox is too slow for linux environments (1.5min boot time is a little too much for me), plus the fact that the hardware is a little slow (menu items don't feel "snappy")...
- So, I decided to go for XBMC instead