Remote control does not work after suspend

[stee]

Hi,
I recently bought an EEEbox 1501P. It came with a remote control with an internal IR receiver (European/Asian version of the 1501P).
It's located at /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a, and through googling and following the guides I have found, like this (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_perform_a_miminal_Ubuntu_and_XBMC_install_on_a_ Asus_EeeBox_PC_EB1501), I have been able to make it work flawlessly with LIRC and Ubuntu 10.04 (including XBMC). (Ubuntu 10.10 does not work due to a bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/659449) in the kernel.)

That is, until I suspend the machine. After waking up from suspend, the remote control simply does not work. The file /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a/resources still says "active", and it seems that what works for everyone else doesn't work for me. Many guides and forum posts suggest making a script either in /etc/pm/sleep.d or in init.d, where I am supposed to stop the lirc program and remove the lirc_it87 and lirc_dev modules before going to suspend, and then add the modules back and restart the lirc daemon during wake-up. This simply has no effect on my remote.

Normally I can get output from both "sudo irw /dev/lircd" and "sudo mode2 -d /dev/lircd", but after wake-up, I get nothing at all. No error messages either.

I'm really frustrated here. Any idea about where I can start looking for clues?

[polc]

Dear see.

I can see the same problem with My 10.10.
Remote works after startup, even in XBMC.
After sleep, and wake, nothing in XBMC, and irw cannot detect input.
I am using serial ttyS0 serial port with a home built adapter.
I checked: serial port is active, 8V output is switched on.

Have you got any news/solution already?

Regards

[stee]

Nope, no resolution yet.
I've given up.

[polc]

Dear Stee,

Yesterday, I was able solve the problem on my computer.
If You (or somebody else) still interested, here is the solution:

I found some hints on:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu_Suspend_/_Wake

As I am using 10.10 some names, and files are different. (however HAL was installed)
As it is more speaking about USB device rights, and enable, and I am using a home built serial adapter, I did not take care about these parts, but at the end of the page, I have found that:

- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Fix the Lirc Device Increment Bug

If your IR remote does not work after waking from sleep, you most likely have this bug. The IR software for Linux, Lirc, will create a new device /dev/lirc1 because it presumes the old device /dev/lirc0 is in use by another process. This confuses XBMC and you end up with a non-working remote. The solution is to shutdown Lirc before suspension and then start it back up after wake. This is done by creating a script at /etc/pm/sleep.d/90_lirc :

# Script to disable lirc before suspend and restart after wake.

case "${1}" in
suspend|hibernate)
if [ "$(pidof xbmc.bin)" ] ; then
wget -q -b -O /dev/null -o /dev/null "http://127.0.0.1:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuilt&Inparameter=LIRC.Stop"
fi
/etc/init.d/lirc stop
;;
resume|thaw)
# If remote still does not work after suspend, uncomment the lines below.
# Note you may need to change "lirc_mceusb". See output from 'sudo lsmod | grep lirc' for module name.
#rmmod lirc_mceusb
#modprobe lirc_mceusb
/etc/init.d/lirc start
if [ "$(pidof xbmc.bin)" ] ; then
wget -q -b -O /dev/null -o /dev/null "http://127.0.0.1:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=LIRC.Start"
fi
;;
esac

Make sure the script is executable:

chmod 755 /etc/pm/sleep.d/90_lirc

- - - - - - - - -- - - - --
I have created the file 90_lirc in the directory.
Of course was not working....
I have deleted #s from the two lines, mentioned above, and changed the mce_usb name to serial_idonnow
(the name found with sudo lsmod | grep lirc).
:-) And working. Remote works after wakeup!

Hi.

[ariel]

Dear Stee,

Yesterday, I was able solve the problem on my computer.
If You (or somebody else) still interested, here is the solution:

I found some hints on:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu_Suspend_/_Wake

As I am using 10.10 some names, and files are different. (however HAL was installed)
As it is more speaking about USB device rights, and enable, and I am using a home built serial adapter, I did not take care about these parts, but at the end of the page, I have found that:

- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Fix the Lirc Device Increment Bug

If your IR remote does not work after waking from sleep, you most likely have this bug. The IR software for Linux, Lirc, will create a new device /dev/lirc1 because it presumes the old device /dev/lirc0 is in use by another process. This confuses XBMC and you end up with a non-working remote. The solution is to shutdown Lirc before suspension and then start it back up after wake. This is done by creating a script at /etc/pm/sleep.d/90_lirc :

# Script to disable lirc before suspend and restart after wake.

case "${1}" in
suspend|hibernate)
if [ "$(pidof xbmc.bin)" ] ; then
wget -q -b -O /dev/null -o /dev/null "http://127.0.0.1:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuilt&Inparameter=LIRC.Stop"
fi
/etc/init.d/lirc stop
;;
resume|thaw)
# If remote still does not work after suspend, uncomment the lines below.
# Note you may need to change "lirc_mceusb". See output from 'sudo lsmod | grep lirc' for module name.
#rmmod lirc_mceusb
#modprobe lirc_mceusb
/etc/init.d/lirc start
if [ "$(pidof xbmc.bin)" ] ; then
wget -q -b -O /dev/null -o /dev/null "http://127.0.0.1:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn&parameter=LIRC.Start"
fi
;;
esac

Make sure the script is executable:

chmod 755 /etc/pm/sleep.d/90_lirc

- - - - - - - - -- - - - --
I have created the file 90_lirc in the directory.
Of course was not working....
I have deleted #s from the two lines, mentioned above, and changed the mce_usb name to serial_idonnow
(the name found with sudo lsmod | grep lirc).
:-) And working. Remote works after wakeup!

Hi.




Thanks for posting back polc. I am having the same issue (also with xbmc) on ubuntu 11.04 but this solution doesn't seem to work. Apparently LIRC changed a lot in the last ubuntu release.

Did you run into this issue in natty? could you solve it?

[lupick]

Thanks for posting back polc. I am having the same issue (also with xbmc) on ubuntu 11.04 but this solution doesn't seem to work. Apparently LIRC changed a lot in the last ubuntu release.

Did you run into this issue in natty? could you solve it?


I was able to have lirc working in Ubuntu 10.10 but in 11.04 lirc hang after the resume!!

I'va also opended a bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/789819

please subscribe it!

thx

L.