Re: Creative USB remote receiver

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:50:53 -0600, John Porterfield wrote:

> I bought a creative labs Audigy 4 (not platinum) and included with it was a
> remote and a usb remote receiver.  I seem to be having problems getting lirc
> to work with this device as it doesn't seem to recognize it.  The device
> [...]

I have the same remote and receiver (RM-1500 and SB0540), and it doesn't
work either.  There seems to be a Linux kernel problem (I use 2.6.15), and
then incomplete support though the DVICO driver.  My observations:

When I watch /proc/interrupts while doing "hexdump -C /dev/input/event4"
(which is in my case the IR receiver), and then press a button, interrupts
are continually generated.  There is output on the event device; there
are obviously key down and key up events [1], but the key up events are
delivered only when the next button is pressed, and pressing a button
for a longer time does not result in repeated key down events (even
though interrupts happen continuously).  Also, the kernel tends to go into
a 100% CPU busy loop, until I press another button on the remote.

Patching the DVICO driver once the kernel issue is resolved is easy, I
have more or less already done so.

So if you have any suggestions please post it here.

Thanks
Wolfgang

lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 009: ID 041e:3100 Creative Technology, Ltd

[1] Apparently the remote send "MS virtual key codes", described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/
   winui/WindowsUserInterface/UserInput/VirtualKeyCodes.asp





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