<sicelo>
that guy was right, pwm-ir-tx appears to work just fine. at least `ir-ctl` is able to send pulse the LED
<Wizzup>
can you catch me up briefly?
<Wizzup>
I can add it to the news post too
<sicelo>
how to go about responding to that though? it's been over 5 years!
<Wizzup>
CC the folks with a new subject, paste the old email in body, maybe
<sicelo>
just edit the dts, and replace `nokia,n900-ir` with `pwm-ir-tx` ... this can be done without rebuilding kernel too
<Wizzup>
yeah, sorry, I mean, what didn't work before, everything?
<Wizzup>
and with that patch, does other userspace work, or just some lower level layer?
<sicelo>
ir-ctl -S rc5:0x1e01 works
<sicelo>
what didn't work before was - you send a pulse, and the entire device hangs
<sicelo>
the n900-specific driver probably has a timing issue leading to that lockup. while looking at that, i stumbled on this patch
<sicelo>
as for userspace, i have yet to make more tests, with specific remotes, for example. maybe we/i/someone should port Pierogi to Leste :-)
<Wizzup>
ok
<Wizzup>
sounds like we might want to include this patch regardless
<sicelo>
yeah
<sicelo>
i already shared this info with arno since he's keen on IR tx too ... maybe one of us gets to porting Pierogi quickly. I think it will be slightly easier than the other remote control applications since it didn't depend on lirc, and ir-ctl doesn't too
<sicelo>
i used it extensively on Fremantle, and it worked well most of the time
<Wizzup>
oh, it's qt4?
<Wizzup>
shouldn't be too hard to port
<sicelo>
yeah, qt4
<sicelo>
there were other remote control applications, but i don't have personal experience with using them, and afaik, they needed lircd, which we don't absolutely need on N900 since we won't ever receive incoming pulses
<Wizzup>
yeah, I remember some of the other ones that allowed you customise stuff
<Wizzup>
but it never really worked for me
<maxwelld>
i don't understand these things, for me it is very hard, but i managed to port several gtk, and even one qt program to later qt for maemo.
<Wizzup>
sicelo: I just pushed osme changes
<Wizzup>
to the news post
<Wizzup>
in case you have a bit of time to look
norayr has joined #maemo-leste
<Wizzup>
oh, sec, didn't push yet
<Wizzup>
pushed now
<Wizzup>
honestly, it's probably fine to push out as is
<Wizzup>
:)
<sixwheeledbeast>
only thing to consider with Pierogi is every remote is hardcoded