[mythtv-users] Almost got my LIRC problem

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Saturday, Sep 20, 2003, at 06:27 US/Pacific, Shay - MythTV wrote:

> At 01:41 AM 9/20/2003, you wrote:
>> On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 14:40 US/Pacific, and wrote:
>>
>>> Don't you have to also to /sbin/chkconfig lircd on to have it 
>>> automatically start?
>>
>> Yes, definitely do that if you didn't already.
>
> I did, but then at startup I have problems like before.

Crap.


>> So I'm confused now. Do you have any lirc source-based install, or 
>> only rpm at this point?
>
> no source installed, just rpm and whatever comes with mythtv-suite 
> which I need to remove.

Actually, if you upgrade to Axel's lirc rpm, it should simply replace 
all the previous stuff, so that shouldn't be necessary.


>>>> I haven't actually tested the remote, I'm at work.. ;)   But it 
>>>> doesn't come right back to the prompt which makes me thing it might 
>>>> actually be working.
>>
>> Sounds like it is working...
>
> Yup, she works.. just can't get it to work at startup

Very odd.


>>>> Thanks a bunch for all the help and the great website!
>>
>> What web site? I have but a page on Mark Cooper's site... :)
>
> Great webpage?  :)

Danke. :)


I'm sorta stumped right now. Your modules.conf file looks correct, and 
it sounds like all the lirc files are the right ones. You could try 
just about any of them throwing a -v flag to get version numbers, just 
to double-check. (ex: 'irxevent -v' should spit out 0.7.0).

It seems that for some reason, things are just not loading in the right 
order. It seems that possibly, for some reason, your ivtv card isn't 
being initialized soon enough, so its i2c bus isn't found for lirc. 
After further pondering, I thought of a few things that might getcha 
goin':

1) Try renumbering the lirc rc script in /etc/rc5.d/ from whatever it 
is now (mine is S90lircd) to S99lircd, so it is one of the last to load 
up. Reboot and test...

2) Add the hackish "/sbin/modprobe ivtv" to the top of your lircd init 
script in the start section, to force ivtv to load up before lirc. It's 
a pretty brutal hack, but if this doesn't work, then I dunno... Reboot 
and test...

I'm still stumped as to why things aren't working already though...

--Jarod

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