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After upgrading to FC9, the previously working serial port channel-changer (bought from IRblaster.info) stopped working. None of the configuration had changed.

In addition to the serial port transmitter, there's a receiver on the PVR350 card - handled by lirc_i2c

After much searching, an additional option came to light : softcarrier=1.

Here are the relevant parts of a confirmed working setup :

  • From /etc/modprobe.conf :
# This is for the PVR350 IR receiver
alias char-major-61-0 lirc_i2c
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c

# This is for the InfraRed on the Serial Port COM1
alias char-major-61-1 lirc_serial
install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none ; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8 softcarrier=1

# Version for COM2
#install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none ; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial
#options lirc_serial irq=3 io=0x2f8 softcarrier=1
  • From /etc/rc.local :
/sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
/sbin/modprobe lirc_serial

# This will be the lirc_i2c    (hauppauge receiver)
/usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc  --output=/dev/lircd

# This will be the COM1 device (blaster)
/usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc1 --output=/dev/lircd1 --driver=default --pidf
ile=/var/run/lircd1.pid

chmod 0666 /dev/lirc0
chmod 0666 /dev/lirc1
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