[clug] (MythTV) LIRC + TView99 card - IR problem

[Andrew Smith]

Hi List,

Firstly, I have to say that Myth is a kick-arse bit of open source.  All 
of my hats are off to those who've contributed to it.

I have a TView99 Analogue tuner card from about a billion years ago that 
I'd like to use as my IR receiver.  My main tuner is a Twin HD card 
(without IR), I threw the TView card in cause I had it, would like to 
tune Analogue and need IR.  I'm hoping someone on the list happens to 
have one of these cards working, or can steer me on diagnosis of the 
problem.

My Distro is MythDora (cause it's quick).  I have the card tuning fine - 
bttv auto detects the correct card type, and the IR function seems to be 
correctly found and provides /dev/input/event6 for me to use with 
irrecord (irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event6 lircd.conf)

The issue is that irrecord times out after 10 seconds with:
Hold down an arbitrary button.
<10 secs>
irrecord: gap not found, can't continue
irrecord: closing '/dev/input/event6'

I'm thinking it might even be a hardware problem - I'm pretty sure I'm 
using the correct IR lead (white stereo 3.5mm plug) - that's where I'm 
hoping someone has one and can confirm.  I haven't located the original 
remote, but have been hoping that at least one of the others I've tried 
(including a Hauppauge x50 remote) should've shown up something.

 From what I understand, irrecord is talking directly to the 
module/card, so lircd isn't running or configured at this point.

Other output below.

An help/pointers appreciated!
Thanks
Andrew

dmesg:

bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:04:00.0, irq: 16, latency: 64, mmio: 0xd8001000
bttv0: detected: (Askey Magic/others) TView99 CPH06x [card=38], PCI 
subsystem ID is 144f:3000
bttv0: using: Askey CPH06X TView99 [card=38,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffefff [init]
bttv0: tuner type=1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
tuner-simple 1-0060: type set to 1 (Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and compatibles))
tuner 1-0060: type set to Philips PAL_I (FI12
tuner-simple 1-0060: type set to 1 (Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and compatibles))
tuner 1-0060: type set to Philips PAL_I (FI12
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
input: bttv IR (card=38) as /class/input/input6
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
bt878_probe: card id=[0x3000144f], Unknown card.

cat /proc/bus/input/devices:

I: Bus=0001 Vendor=144f Product=3000 Version=0001
N: Name="bttv IR (card=38)"
P: Phys=pci-0000:04:00.0/ir0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=10afc336 2150a48 0 0 0 404 80010000 190 4801 1e0000 4400 100000 
10000ffc