Bug 132696

Summary: Lirc does not work on Acer Travelmate laptop 800
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udaltsov>
Component: KernelAssignee: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: vojtech
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
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Description Sergey Udaltsov 2005-11-08 12:06:09 UTC 
I got Acer laptop with IR port (National Semiconductors). 
IRDA works ok - I can interact with my mobile phone.
But lirc is not functioning.

First, on insertion of lirc_sir I see in /var/log/messages the warning that module is not supported by Novell, kernel is tainted (actually, same message I see in irda mode, for nsc_ircc module). But anyway, the module loads ok (when I put correct ioport, irq) and lirc starts ok (/etc/init.d/lirc start). BTW, at the very start, I disable the corresponding serial port /dev/ttyS1 (setting uart none).

After that point lircd does not provide any output, whichever remote control I use. Utilities like mode2, irw, irrecord do not see anything coming from lircd.

I suspect it is broken lirc_sir - but not really sure.
Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2005-11-15 11:33:26 UTC 
Gerd, you've been doing the LIRC stuff. Any idea?
Comment 2 Gerd Hoffmann 2005-11-15 13:10:40 UTC 
Hmm, no.   I'm not sure whenever the driver supports that hardware in the first place anyway.  At least in the source code nsc isn't mentioned anywhere.  And the source is full of (compile time) options, looks like hardware-specific tweaks are often needed ...

As the almost unmaintained lirc kernel drivers are on the drop list for 10.1 anyway I'd say this is a WONTFIX.