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From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
To: Chris McCrae <chrismccraeworks@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Asus PN62S vs PN50 - ITE8708
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 10:20:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210503092005.GB14939@gofer.mess.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN2W0iNOsa6GYK28Vz=DmkyjY72H_bq=8EUkzFuy0_p9ZVms4A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Chris,

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 07:37:10PM -0400, Chris McCrae wrote:
> Long time stalker, first time caller, so go easy please :-)  (I've
> already learned I need to use plain text mode ... what's next?)
> 
> Recently acquired an Asus PN62S (Intel) as a media centre frontend
> (currently testing with Xubuntu 20.04 and a 5.10 kernel, and the most
> current BIOS available).  Having an integrated IR was part of the
> selling features.  However, getting it to be recognized by my system
> has become a challenge that I am getting obsessed with.  There's very
> little to find online on this device that is current, but there has
> been some recent conversation on this list about the same device, on a
> related machine, the PN50 (AMD).  I'm hoping that the knowledge here
> may lead to a solution for my issue.
> 
> I can provide more detail on request, but at the moment I am focusing
> on the DSDT as a possible suspect.  I do not have the 16 byte issue
> that the PN50 experiences.  Mine is defined as 8 bytes, which is
> compatible with the ite-cir driver.  My issue is that there appears to
> be no attempt to bind the device to the driver (but it is visible in
> lsmod)... no messages about the driver in dmesg at all.  My thought is
> that the definition of the device in DSDT may somehow give it enough
> information (ITE8708) to know the driver could be needed, but not the
> correct information to make it work.
> 
> An earlier message provided only part of the device definition in DSDT
> for the PN50.  I would like to be able to see the full definition for
> it from the PN50, to see if anything is significantly different.
> Ideally, if I had the full DSDT as a starting point, I could compare
> other areas such as motherboard resources.

It would be great if we could see the entries for the IR device in your
DSDT. There is a guide here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DSDT on
how to do that.

Thanks

Sean

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-30 23:37 Asus PN62S vs PN50 - ITE8708 Chris McCrae
2021-05-03  9:20 ` Sean Young [this message]
2021-05-03 15:44   ` Chris McCrae
2021-05-04  9:03     ` Sean Young
2021-05-05  3:52       ` Chris McCrae
2021-05-05 21:18         ` Chris McCrae

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