Bugzilla – Bug 132696
Lirc does not work on Acer Travelmate laptop 800
Last modified: 2005-11-15 13:10:40 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.
Gerd, you've been doing the LIRC stuff. Any idea?
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.