[mythtv-users] Lirc problems w/PVR-250

[Aaron Levinson]

This appears to be the second post that discusses the same problem (the
first was included in the Notes on Jarod's guide e-mail from earlier
today).  I also experience this problem, and I did a recent Fedora install
using Jarod's guide (and encountered basically all of the issues discussed
in the "Notes on Jarod's guide e-mail).  At first, I thought that maybe
the PVR-250 hardware was defective, at least with respect to the IR cable
or IR port, but as other people have encountered the same problem, I'm
starting to doubt that it is a hardware problem.  I guess, if all of us
that are suffering from the same problem purchased the PVR-250 recently
(like I did), it could be a defective hardware problem with recent
versions of the card.  I was considering putting the card in a Windows
system to see if I could get IR working there, but at this point, I doubt
that it is a hardware issue.

Aaron Levinson

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Brian Donaldson wrote:

> I just built my first MythTV box using Jarod's instructions.  It's working 
> great except for Lirc.  Here's my setup:
> 
> Athlon 2000+
> PVR-250
> Geforce4 440MX w/TV-Out
> Kernel:  2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_37.rhfc1.at
> 
> I used _37 instead of _38 or _39 since the nvidia_graphics package isn't 
> ready for _38 or _39 yet.  When I run irw I don't get any output on the 
> screen while pressing buttons on the remote.  Here is the relevant contents 
> from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Mar  9 17:07:17 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3955]: lircd(any) ready
> Mar  9 17:07:17 localhost lircd: lircd startup succeeded
> Mar  9 17:07:21 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver 
> registered, at major 61
> Mar  9 17:07:21 localhost kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
> Mar  9 17:07:21 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: 
> lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 10
> Mar  9 17:07:34 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3955]: accepted new client on 
> /dev/lircd
> Mar  9 17:10:21 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3955]: accepted new client on 
> /dev/lircd
> Mar  9 17:10:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3955]: removed client
> Mar  9 17:10:50 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3955]: accepted new client on 
> /dev/lircd
> Mar  9 17:11:02 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3955]: removed client
> Mar  9 17:13:26 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3955]: removed client
> 
> I'm using the newer PVR-250 with the grey remote.  Any thoughts on what else 
> I should check?  Thanks for the help.
> 
> Brian
> 
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