[mythtv-users] lirc setup question
John Freer
john_freer at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 27 09:40:58 EST 2005
Hey all,
Looking for some lirc setup advice. I just did a fresh install, FC3.
I installed 2.6.9 / 724 kernel.
I have (4) capture cards, (2) bttv Hauppauge cards & (1) bttv HD-2000
card. Also one PVR-250.
For drivers I'm running the latest stable atrpms version of IVTV and
I'm running the pchdtv 1.6 version of the bttv driver.
So here's my problem. I can't for the life of me get lirc to work
properly. There are problems and annoying udev problems.
Problem 1:
When I modprobe lirc_i2c, it registers the (2) hauppauge bttv card
i2c IR chips first. I see that they're registered, and /dev/lirc0
and /dev/lirc1 are created in /dev.
(A hint here for those others having trouble: In modprobe.conf I
changed from char-major-61 lirc_i2c TO two lines: char-major-61-0
lirc_i2c and char-major-61-1 lirc_i2c. This resulted in the creation
of the proper 2 device entries (/dev/lirc0 and /dev/lirc1).
HERE's THE PROBLEM:
lirc_dev can't register the plugin for the PVR-250 (IVTV) IR chip
because lirc_dev puts into dmesg "no free slots for plugins!"
Is there a limit of some type in the kernel?
Anyway, if I (at each boot), create ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc and
then fire up /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd start, then the daemon starts and
I can start irw.
I'm not getting output from irw, but at least the program fires up.
I'm hoping that if I can solve the "no free slots for plugins!"
problem, then it might fix the rest.
Any thoughts?
JF
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