[mythtv-users] Re: My Lirc problems - I'm dying here..

[Shay - MythTV]

At 10:51 PM 9/18/2003, you wrote:
>On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 09:06 US/Pacific, Shay - MythTV wrote:
>
>>>I seem to recall that lirc_dev has some hooks into bttv, as does the 
>>>tuner module. However, note that only one bttv loaded up on my box 
>>>(0.7.104, since I never put 0.9.11 on it).
>>>
>>>Shay, try uninstalling the ATrpms bttv 0.9.11 kernel modules, and see 
>>>what happens... If I get bored (not likely), I'll try adding them to my 
>>>setup to see if it breaks things. It shouldn't, since the 0.9.11 bttv 
>>>should just supplant 0.7.104, per the directives at the top of your 
>>>modules.conf file, but I'm not seeing what is causing both of them to 
>>>load on your system.
>>
>>I ended up just doing a format/reinstall..  And guess what, It's still 
>>not working.. if I do a depmod -a and then modprobe ivtv I get:
>>
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, 
>>Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, 
>>Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost insmod: 
>>/lib/modules/2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: 
>>init_module: No such device
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by 
>>incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>>     You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost insmod: 
>>/lib/modules/2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: 
>>insmod bttv failed
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module rivatv
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: 
>>lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 10
>>
>>
>>It's like it's trying to do more than it should..
>
>Yeah, that's what I was thinking...
>
>>I notice that your log doesn't have any of the mod stuff..  unless it's 
>>normally hidden..
>
>I can't recall. If you haven't done anything strange, we ought to have 
>pretty much identical log entries... What exactly do you have in 
>/etc/modules.conf, and what is your exact hardware setup?

Modules.conf:

# For ivtv
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/media/video
# For bttv and saa7134
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/v4l2
# default path
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv debug=1
options tuner type=2
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c

alias eth0 8139too
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 
2>&1
  || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 
2>&1 |
| :
alias char-major-195 nvidia

Hardware:

MicroStar K7T Turbo Socket A ATX Motherboard
750mHz AMD Cpu
Hauppauge WINTV 250
8X AGP GeForce4 MX440 64MB DDR w/TV out
SoundBlaster Live!
RedHat 9.0

I've gone step-by-step through your instructions.  No divergence.  Thanks 
for looking Jarod.