[mythtv-users] Lirc is driving me crazy

[Jason White]

I had similar issues.  What I ended up doing was following all of
Jarod's instructions to get pretty much everything working EXCEPT for my
framebuffering.  

I was hoping that I'd be able to just modprobe the drivers but it seems
like there's a few of them missing from Axel's default config.  I'd also
seen only marginal success in different postings from people who had
loaded the drivers as modules instead of compiling them into the kernel.


I then grabbed Axel's kernel source RPM:

http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/kernel/kernel-source-2.4.20-2
0_29.rh9.at.i386.rpm

I did the typical make mrproper, make oldconfig, etc.  I ran xconfig and
added all of the required drivers (there's several links/postings with
this list).  Before rebuilding my kernel and modules, I edited the
Makefile to remove the "custom" from the name so that the new
kernel/modules would be compatible with the ones I'd already installed
via rpm.

Once installing that new kernel, everything started magically working.
I was able to get the TV out working with calls to fbset.

That said, I now have it working but am not completely happy.  After a
lot of tweaking it's still not what I'd consider "good quality."  If you
make any progress here, please let me know!

Also, feel free to ask more questions.  This was my biggest stumbling
block for getting my system up and running.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Graham Siener
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:58 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Lirc is driving me crazy
> 
> I've looked through all the various threads, and it seems that some
people
> have gotten lirc to work with little tricks and tweaks, I however have
> not.
> 
> I've been following the ever-popular "Step-by-step guide to building a
> MythTV box under Red Hat Linux 9 w/Atrpms," and everything was working
> great.  I then started over because I decided to setup tv-out (was
> previously using just a monitor).  I'm using a Matrox G400 so I had to
> recompile stuff for framebuffer, which meant no apt-get kernel for me.
> Everything is working perfectly, except lirc.
> 
> I can't use apt-get lirc-kmdl because I'm running a 2.4.20-20.9
kernel.  I
> tried apt-get remove lirc, but that also wants to remove mplayer.  So,
> against my better thoughts I left the apt-get install of lirc.  I then
> searched for and removed the lirc_dev and lirc_i2c modules, and
compiled
> i2c
> from cvs.  All the services start, but irw doesn't respond to my
remote
> (this all worked before so I'm positive it's not a hardware issue).
> 
> I saw the recent post about removing "inc_use" and "dec_use" from the
lirc
> make file.  Unfortunately that didn't work for me.
> 
> I'd love to just use Axel's ATrpm with the --define kernel option, but
> there
> is no spec file.
> 
> What should I do to get this working?  After working so hard to get
the
> matrox framebuffer setup properly, I can't believe this is my
stumbling
> block.  Somehow a remote looks a lot more appealing on a coffee table
than
> a
> keyboard...
> 
> Thanks everyone, I love Myth!
> 
> Graham
> 
> PS If anyone has questions on matrox g400 framebuffer stuff I'd be
glad to
> help, as I think I ran into every obstacle and they're still fresh in
my
> mind...
> 
> PPS Slightly OT, how do I run a script automatically after X starts in
> RH9?