Upgraded from R5C7 to R5D50 this morning. Upgrade seemed to go fine, except my ATI Remote Wonder no longer works. Since R4v5, I've been very happy using the ATI kernel driver and custom xmodmaps for MythTV. After installing R5E50, the kernel driver didn't appear to be installed, and I no longer see the remote being detected as the system boots.

I tried lirc_reconfig.sh to use LIRC to handle the remote, and this failed as well with the following error:



Does anybody have any ideas about how I can re-detect the ATI Remote? Is it possible to use the kernel driver in E50 or has this been removed?

Thanks for any insight you can provide!

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I did a clean install of R5E50 and Remote Wonder is working with lirc.

What status does irw return for you when using lirc?

Maybe try doing a and configuring for ATI remote.

I use the kernel module with my ATi remote and it works without issue. You should have answered no to using LIRC if you want to use the kernel module. Upon answering yes the first time, it moves the kernel module out of the way so it isn't loaded (check the same directory).

Did another auto-upgrade to give the kernel module another try. ATI remote is still unresponsive.

I do get a weird error (I think) as the KnoppMyth install CD is booting. It says:


However, later in the install, it recognizes the ATI Remote because it asks if I'd like to remove the kernel module and use LIRC. After selecting "no," there's no response to the remote, and even loading xev in a terminal window shows no activity when I press buttons on the remote. I've tried switching USB ports, no luck. I even did another auto upgrade with the remote dongle unplugged and plugged it in after install to see if it would be recognized. Again, no luck.

Temporarily, I bought an IR learning remote and programmed it to mimic my IR keyboard, but I really do prefer the ATI with kernel module.

Anybody have any other suggestions?

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Working in my head... But I hope you get where I'm going...

Thanks, Cecil. That did the trick!

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... or I thought it did... After performing the steps you suggested, the ATI remote worked fine - until I rebooted. After reboot it was unresponsive again. Tried a simple
and this didn't work.

I had to run the entire sequence of stopping lirc (which was running, somehow) removing it from startup, removing the lirc ati and dev modules, removing and modprobing ati_remote before the ATI remote would work again...

Anybody have any ideas about how to keep from having to run all these commands after booting? Or any idea why my system is behaving this way?

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I seem to be having the same problem after the upgrade. I think that I would rather switch to using lirc with my remote wonder since it looks like it might integrate better with myth but, I haven't been able to get it to work yet. I also tried the steps that cecil suggested in this post to just get it working but, I get the following error when I attempt to enter this command:

root@mythtv:~# rmmod lirc_dev
ERROR: Module lirc_dev is in use by lirc_i2c

Have you figured out a way to get your remote wonder working again?

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Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000
Hauppage PVR 500 MCE
Soundblaster Live
ATI Remote Wonder II

I found that Cecil's suggestion worked fine, until I reboot. Then I have to perform each of the steps again before the remote will function again.

I thought I'd like LIRC as well, but I like the responsiveness of the kernel module much better.

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I did a fresh upgrade and picked to keep the kernel version of the ati remotewonder and I can follow Cecil's steps as well to get it working. But, I also have to do them every time I reboot as well. Some other startup script must be loading lirc, or something... I would love to not have to run this every time I reboot.

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P4 1.6 GHz
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Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000
Hauppage PVR 500 MCE
Soundblaster Live
ATI Remote Wonder II

As root:

Thanks Cecil that worked great!

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P4 1.6 GHz
1.2 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000
Hauppage PVR 500 MCE
Soundblaster Live
ATI Remote Wonder II

works here as well. thanks

Following Cecil's steps to kill lirc and instead use the kernel module caused my ATI Remote Wonder II to start responding, BUT only a few of the keys work - mainly the directional keys and the "ok" button (well, the mouse emulator works, but that doesn't buy much once within Myth of course).

I need a few more buttons to make things usable - such as an "esc" equivalent, and a "menu" and/or "program guide".

I'm not seeing how to make these work, especially considering I've only been able to get anything at all from this remote by killing lirc (most ATI RWII info I've found pertains to lirc).

TIA

It looks like the older ATI Remote wonder kernel driver is back in R5F1 because the most of the keys no longer do anything and the buttons repeat at a really fast rate now. Is there anyway to fix this? I have seen some old posts that suggested altering the source for the ati driver and re-compiling. Has anyone else run into this problem?

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P4 1.6 GHz
1.2 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000
Hauppage PVR 500 MCE
Soundblaster Live
ATI Remote Wonder II