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Message #03455
[Bug 574432] Re: Lirc unable to initialise IR portion of Mplay Blast VFD (Zalman HD-135 case)
I've found a workaround. At least it works for me and I honestly don't
know why it does. As mentioned in the description it says that the only
way to initialize the IR portion is by booting up a Windows VM and doing
it from there. I've found; however, that all I have to do to get it
working after booting up is to enter "screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600" in the
terminal. It will fail to open up a screen to the device but it appears
to wake it up such that IR, as well as the VFD on the HD135 case, starts
working. The 9600 part may be incorrect but it doesn't seem to matter as
long as it wakes it up.
Taking this a step further I edited the /etc/rc.local file and added the
"screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600" line there so that it "initializes" it upon
boot up.
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Lirc unable to initialise IR portion of Mplay Blast VFD (Zalman HD-135 case)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574432
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Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu: New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: lirc
Re-written for clarity;
The 'VL-System Mplay Blast' combined VFD/IR unit in the Zalman HD-135 case is functional with Lirc using the HD44780 driver with seemingly one caveat. Lirc seems to be unable to physically initialise the IR portion of the unit after it is powered up before it can be used.
The only way to do this is to boot into a Windows VM (with the display's usb device attached), run the Windows Mplay Home-Centre software supplied with the case which initialises the IR portion of the display (the red led on the display goes unlit) and then closing the VM (not shutting it down as this un-initialises it again) Lirc is then able to use the IR device as intended. If power is removed from the display (i.e physically unplugging the machine) then this process will need to be performed again, the display starts with the IR led lit (uninitialised) and doesn't go out on boot until the Windows software is run.
Running Lcdproc (possibly with certain options, I've read maybe relating to enabling the keypad) seemingly used to be able to send the right initialisation commands to the unit when it initialised the lcd portion of the unit so Lirc would function without having to go through the Windows software step above. Unfortunately now for one reason or another this doesn't seem to work any more.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 3 13:23:26 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lirc
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