Another update, another battle with the remote.
I did all the usual stuff, as mentioned in the previous posts.
Nothing.
Looking at the logs, it turns out all this module stuff is already built into the most recent kernel. I even see the tell-tale “fixing aureal” message in dmesg. I added the changes to /etc/rc.local, but no success. Only the mouse worked.
After a bunch of trial and error, I think there’s some sort of conflict between lirc and eventlirc. Only after I started killing a bunch of lircd processes did the remote start sputtering to life.
My fix right now? Yet another “what am I doing?” hack. Here it goes. Start from a fresh build/image.
ssh into your raspberry pi using putty
# sudo nano /lib/udev/lircd_helper
This will bring up an editor. Skip the first bunch of lines that start with #.
Right before you see
logger -t "lircd_helper" ACTION ${ACTION}
add the following
# I don't know why this works. It just does.
logger -t "lircd_helper" Crash and burn.
exit 1;
logger -t "lircd_helper" ACTION ${ACTION}
To exit, the editor, hit control-o (to write the file) and then control-x to exit. And reboot. No custom kernel. No downloading headers. None of that. Just a hack to stop lircd from running.
All this does is prevent lircd from running. This seems to allow eventlircd to run. Which seems to be the key.
This is how I feel:
… a little bit Pacquiou and a little bit Marquez …