[mythtv-users] Lirc + Haupauge Gray Remote

[Pete Cable]

hmmm....I am running udev on gentoo and lirc is working great here. A
couple things I noticed.

* I don't think you need any of those options lines for ivtv any
longer. While I don't think they should affect lirc, I would try
removing them just to be sure. My /etc/modules.d/ivtv looks like this:

alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_std=1

I set the ivtv_std=1 option to force my card to NTSC to set the
correct framespergop. It seemed to work OK prior to this change, but I
made it anyway.

* irw should work ok. I'm not sure why it's not working for you. You
might try forcing it to use /dev/lircd

# irw /dev/lircd

* the manpage for mode2 says it doesn't work for tv tuner cards

* I get the same error with irrecord as you are reporting. Try:

#  irrecord -d /dev/lircd test.out

this works fine on my machine where irrecord test.out fails.

Hope this helps,

Pete

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:49:12 -0400, Eric DeLabar <mythtv at edelabar.org> wrote:
> I think this is a gentoo specific problem, maybe udev related, but I'm
> not really sure, so here goes...
> 
> What I've installed:
> 
> kernel: 2.6.7-rc2-love2
> ivtv: ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck113n (from source, not ebuild)
> lirc: lirc-0.7.0_pre7 (ebuild)
> 
> What I've done:
> 
> 1. Compiled the kernel with no lirc support.
> 
> 2. Compiled and installed ivtv.
> 
> 3. Emerged lirc with hauppauge support.
> 
> 4. Copied the lircd-g.conf file from ivtv to /etc/lirc.conf
> 
> 5. Edited /etc/modules.d/ivtv to look like this:
> 
> Code:
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> 
> options ivtv ivtv-debug=0
> options saa7127 output_select=1 tuner=47
> options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 debug=0
> add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c ivtv-fb
> 
> 6. Edited /etc/conf.d/lirc to look like this:
> 
> Code:
> # Options to pass to the lircd process
> LIRCD_OPTS="-d /dev/lirc0"
> 
> 7. Added ivtv to my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
> 
> 8. Ran the following:
> 
> Code:
> rc-update add lircd default
> 
> 9. Rebooted.
> 
> This is what I get:
> 
> Code:
> # ls -l /dev/lirc*
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root   61, 0 Oct  6 18:33 /dev/lirc0
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root       0 Oct  8 08:41 /dev/lircd
> 
> If I run:
> 
> Code:
> cat /dev/lirc0
> 
> I can press buttons on the remote and get feedback to the screen, so I
> know that the remote, the receiver, and the driver are working.
> 
> If I run:
> 
> Code:
> # irw
> 
> Nothing happens when I press buttons on the remote, and the following
> appears in /ver/log/messages (after I stop irw):
> 
> Code:
> Oct  8 09:37:56 jukebox 0.7.0pre7[16005]: accepted new client on
> /dev/lircd
> Oct  8 09:38:00 jukebox 0.7.0pre7[16005]: removed client
> 
> If I run:
> 
> Code:
> # mode2
> 
> It fails with this, and nothing in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Code:
> mode2: error opening /dev/lirc
> mode2: No such file or directory
> 
> If I run:
> 
> Code:
> # irrecord test.out
> 
> It fails and I get the following error to the console:
> 
> Code:
> 
> irrecord -  application for recording IR-codes for usage with lirc
> 
> Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus(lirc at bartelmus.de)
> 
> irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? --> close it, check
> permissions)
> 
> and the following in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Code:
> Oct  8 09:43:27 jukebox irrecord: could not get file information for
> /dev/lirc
> Oct  8 09:43:27 jukebox irrecord: default_init(): No such file or
> directory
> 
> Through all of this, the lirc_dev and lirc_i2c modules remain loaded,
> and the lirc_dev and lircd processes continue running.
> 
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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