[Cialug] 'nother question

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

Oh, and I can't remember who wanted it now, but the program to pull
Micro$oft's mce data and use it for MythTV is called mc2xml.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Matthew Nuzum
<matthew.nuzum at canonical.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:30 PM,  <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > not having a lot of luck on google/irc with this one.  Since we have some
> > MythTV users I was hoping someone might know.  I'm trying to get LIRC set
> up
> > using the onboard ir port.  from what I've read it *should* work, but
> here's
> > what I'm getting.
>
> > Is there any way to see what could be using this port (that doesn't
> exist)?
>
> I've not had any luck with onboard ir. They get recognized as serial
> ports because they're IRDA. The recent versions of lirc supposedly
> support irda ports and I've noticed it recognizes the port but nothing
> happens. I think my brother's HP laptop was able to use the onboard ir
> port though - I remember Ubuntu giving him the "binary driver" warning
> for lirc. His came with a small express-card sized remote.
>
> > My tuner board has an ir "eye" I could plug in too.  It looks like lsmod
> is
> > finding it and putting it under ir_common.  I'd prefer not to use this
> one
> > as the other one on the mobo is hidden nicely in the case.  Could they be
> > interfering with eachother?
>
> I've used the USB ir box that came with my PVR150 and it works
> perfectly. I don't have it configured to my current computer but it
> worked when I tried it last a little over a year ago. Note that on
> mine there are two piecees... the one with the USB port is the IR
> receiver, there's also a little piece with a long cord that plugs in
> like a headphone jack that is an IR sender for controlling other
> devices. I didn't try it out.
>
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