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

Shay - MythTV mythtv at highstyleweb.com
Fri Sep 19 16:45:29 EDT 2003


Scratch that.  I didn't have lirc installed anymore when I looked.  You 
were right, they're in both locations.  I deleted all the files in 
/usr/local/bin, there were duplicates of each in /usr/bin.  My lircd points 
to /usr/bin already.  Anything else I should do?

-Shay

At 02:51 PM 9/19/2003, you wrote:

>I only see irw in /usr/local/bin.  Otherwise, I don't see any lirc stuff 
>in either of those places.
>
>At 01:23 PM 9/19/2003, you wrote:
>>I'm also using a pvr250, rh9 and atrpms along Jarods howto, and I have 
>>great problems getting lircd to work.
>>
>>One thing that I found a while ago was the the lirc atrpms installed into 
>>/usr/bin and the 0.7 cvs source into /usr/local/bin (...at least on my 
>>system), and that was making lirc fail because it on my system had two 
>>versions (one from my 2.4.20-8 and one from my 2.4.20-20_23.1 install).
>>
>>I had to manually delete all of this,  install from cvs and edit the 
>>/etc/init.d/lircd to point to the right directories.
>>It's working great now.
>>
>>Did you try anything like this?
>>rgds
>>anders
>>
>>On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 08:38 AM, Shay - MythTV wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
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