Steven Smith wrote: > I used the lirc_i2c driver with mythdora 5.0 and it works fine. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modinfo lirc_i2c > filename: > /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-64.fc8/updates/drivers/lirc/lirc_i2c.ko > license: GPL > author: Gerd Knorr, Michal Kochanowicz, Christoph Bartelmus, > Ulrich Mueller, Stefan Jahn, Jerome Brock > description: Infrared receiver driver for Hauppauge and Pixelview > cards (i2c stack) > depends: > vermagic: 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS > parm: minor:Preferred minor device number (int) > parm: debug:Enable debugging messages (bool) > Your Blaster works? I got as far as loading the card in a windows box and trying to duplicate the steps to enable debugging in the driver to see the I2C calls, but was unsuccessful.
I know the receiver works, but if the blaster works too, that'd be awesome. Josh Becigneul > --- On *Wed, 9/17/08, Andy Walls /<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > From: Andy Walls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] How do you activate the HVR-1600 IR blaster? > To: "User discussion about IVTV" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 7:43 PM > > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:21 -0400, Rick wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since I can't pick up any more pvr-150's, I thought I'd > purchase an > > HVR-1600. Is there a way, yet, to activate the IR blaster on the > > HVR-1600? Would the method used for the pvr-150 work with this card? > > Rick, > > The IR chip and interface is in many ways the same between a PVR-150 and > an HVR-1600: a Zilog Z8 Encore family microcontroller responding to I2C > addresses > 0x70-x073 > > I have attached a patch to the lirc_pvr150 driver, but not the lirc > build system nor the lirc_pvr150 "firmware". > > Last reports on the lists (check the ivtv-user ivtv-devel, linux-dvb and > video4linux lists) is that this didn't work. Likely because the real > firmware inside the Z8F0811 has changed. This requires someone with a > Windows setup and the ability to set some debug variables in the windows > utilities to capture the traffic the Windows driver sends to the Z8 > chip, and run Mark's scripts to build a new "firmware" file for > the > lirc_pvr150 driver. The lirc_pvr150 driver actually works by using a > "replay attack" on the Z8F0811 sending it the same codes as the > Windows > driver does. > > > It's my long term plan to get this working (I need it myself circa Feb > 2009). > > It's my even longer term plan to replace the real firmware in the > Z8F0811 with some home grown open source stuff and > liberate myself (and > others) from Zilog's proprietary API, > > Regards, > Andy > > > > Thanks, > > Rick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
