ron at ronfrazier
Feb 17, 2008, 6:02 AM
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anybody with a USB-UIRT get suspend to ram working?
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Has anybody with a USB-UIRT been able to get it working as both a lirc
device and get it to wake the computer from suspend to ram? I bought
one because the myth wiki page for it mentions the wake from suspend
feature of it, which implied to me that I would be able to use it with
myth. However, after a failure to get it working, and after being
unable to find even a single case of someone getting it working, I'm
starting to think it's not possible. If nobody has been able to, I'd
like to update the wiki to note this (so nobody makes the same mistake
as me). On the other hand, if someone HAS, the I'd love to know how.
Here's my situation, specifically. I've used the windows utility to
configure the USB-UIRT with the code for my remote's power button. If
I plug it into the machine and have lirc disabled, I can suspend the
machine and use the remote to wake it up. If I start up lirc but don't
start any lirc applications, I can still continue to do the same.
However, the instant an application connects to lirc (ex: run irw from
the command line), the USB-UIRT will no longer wake the system from
suspend.
From that point out, it works perfectly fine as a lirc device, but the
waking doesn't work anymore. Additionally, even if I reboot the
machine, the problem still exists. The only way to allow it to work
again as a wake-from-suspend-device is to physically unplug the
USB-UIRT and replug it in. At that point, it will wake the system fine
(until a lirc enabled application is run, of course).
Since the problem persists across reboots, it seems to me that
something is corrupting the state of the device. I thought maybe lirc
was clearing out the wake codes by accident somehow, but that doesn't
seem to be the case. I found this nice utility from Kenny Root that
allows you to program the wake codes in linux without having to use
the windows utility:
http://the-b.org/wiki/Usb-uirt-config.pl
As long as lirc hasn't been run since connecting the USB-UIRT, I've
been able to use that utility to program a different button to wake
the device, and it will then successfully wake the system from suspend
with that button. However, once a lirc application has been used, and
the USB-UIRT apparently corrupted, even that utility will not make it
work.
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Ron
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