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[Dan Christian <787735@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ya, but that's not something an ordinary user knows how to figure out.
 I couldn't find any docs on how to setup devinput, what it is, or
when to use it.

It's not at all clear from the documentation how to find and debug
each of these steps:
Which driver (the docs say the atilibusb driver is right, not
ati_remote; but everything has changed in recent kernels).
What device (I didn't know which directory to look in the device tree,
which device file to pick, or why).
What configuration lircd needs for that (hardware.conf setup isn't
actually documented).
What lircd.conf is needed for the above steps (and why).
What .lirc/mythtv file (actually, once irw works, this step isn't so hard).

To make it even worse, what are the ir_* drivers that seems to get
loaded automatically?  I couldn't find any info on them.  Are they
stepping on the user's configuration?

The mythbuntu control panel is supposed to make this easy, but it was
crashing on me, and it's configuration was broken in 10.10 and 11.04.

The software stack may work, but user's can't figure it out.  I don't
want to belittle much hard work, but things don't look good from a
user perspective.

Thanks you for all your effort.  I hope this view from a user's
perspective is constructive (but it feels like I'm whining about
something I got for free :-).
-Dan

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm still quite sure ati_remote + lircd's devinput driver works just
> fine for the firefly hardware when you're talking to the right event
> device.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/787735
>
> Title:
>  Snapstream Firefly non-functional
>
> Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: lirc
>
>  Using the mythbuntu control center configuration for a Snapstream
>  Firefly and atilibusb, no key presses show up under mythtv or irw.
>
>  I couldn't get the userspace driver to work in 10.10 either (but
>  didn't file a bug - bad user).  In 10.10, I got it working using the
>  lirc_atiusb module, but that also doesn't work under 11.04.
>
>  I've attached the hardware.conf below.  The lircd.conf just includes
>  /usr/share/lirc/remotes/atiusb/lircd.conf.atilibusb
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: lirc 0.8.7-0ubuntu4.1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Tue May 24 12:39:59 2011
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   PATH=(custom, user)
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: lirc
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-22 (1 days ago)
>
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/787735

Title:
  Snapstream Firefly non-functional

Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lirc

  Using the mythbuntu control center configuration for a Snapstream
  Firefly and atilibusb, no key presses show up under mythtv or irw.

  I couldn't get the userspace driver to work in 10.10 either (but
  didn't file a bug - bad user).  In 10.10, I got it working using the
  lirc_atiusb module, but that also doesn't work under 11.04.

  I've attached the hardware.conf below.  The lircd.conf just includes
  /usr/share/lirc/remotes/atiusb/lircd.conf.atilibusb

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: lirc 0.8.7-0ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue May 24 12:39:59 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: lirc
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-22 (1 days ago)