Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Dear members,
I have had a problem quite a while with the remote controls used for the title-listed soundcard. Some while ago, I successfully got the use of both the remote control's and the external control panel's buttons via lirc, on my Gentoo 2008 installation. It was set up to allow the controls to do things such as starting Kaffeine, or changing the kmix volume via dcop. Now, however, I have the strange scenario whereby it will not work if I boot my computer straight into Linux, but if I start up in Windows first, restart the computer, then choose Linux, everything works perfectly. What may be causing this nuisance and how may it be resolved? Yours Faithfully, elprawn. P.S. Thanks for your time. |
Hi,
Firstly, I'm going to report this post and ask that it be moved to the Gentoo subforum as you might get a better response there. Secondly, could you please post a little more information regarding your system? For instance, are you using ALSA? Also, does your sound work when you boot straight into Linux, or does that fail as well? |
I'm using ALSA, yes, but it's unrelated, really. ALSA works perfectly. It's the remote control units that I'm having problems with and as far as lirc is concerned they have nothing to do with sound even though in this circumstance it's the one from my sound card I'm using. I'm using the volume control for just that, but I use other buttons for opening programs and issuing them commands.
lirc is running and looks on the surface to be working perfectly but the buttons do nothing unless I follow the pattern specified above. irw won't see the button presses unless I restart from windows first, either. It's as if Windows activates something in the soundcard that Linux doesn't. It seems to turn on the remote unit, if you will, whereas Linux won't, but will see it if Windows has already done so. Thanks for the help. |
Well, anyone looking for a solution, here it is...
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echo -e '\xf0''\x00''\x20''\x21''\x61''\x00''\x00''\x00''\x7f''\x00''\xf7' > /dev/snd/midiC0D1 |
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