[mythtv-users] 0.18.1 on x86_64 and lirc not working

Oliver Groht oliver.groht at catworkx.de
Sun May 22 18:51:13 UTC 2005


Johan Reinalda schrieb:

> All,
> I have just built a new box, based on FC3-x86_64, installed as plain 
> x86_64 without the 32-bit comp. libraries. (on Athlon64 2800+, ECS 
> 755-A2 mobo, 512mb, 200gb, pvr-150mce, nvidia fx5200-svid)
>
> Installed lirc 0.7.1 as usual, then installed 0.18.1-x86_64 from the 
> at repo (manually downloading rpms,  as yum had some dependency 
> problems with myth-plugins).
>
> myth runs fine, with one exception: I cannot get lirc support to work.
>
> Using a home brew serial port receiver, the lirc setup shows working 
> when testing with 'mode2' (i see pulses), and with 'irw' (I see the 
> correct buttom definitions, both as root or as mythtv user). However, 
> Myth does not recognize/use lirc...
>
> I have the same setup  on a development box, running an older&slower 
> original athlon 32bit cpu, and also 0.18.1 (upgraded from the original 
> 0.17 install) There things work. I pulled in the following two lirc 
> config files from this dev system which work there:
> /etc/lircd.conf
> ~mythtv/.myth/lirrc
>
> One difference I notice is the lack of following type entries in 
> /var/log/message (this does show up for irw, not when starting 
> mythfrontend) :
>
> May 22 10:41:06 mythtv lircd-0.7.1[3584]: accepted new client on 
> /dev/lircd
>
> What am I missing, or is it just that the x86_64 build does not 
> support lirc?
>
> TIA,
>
> Johan
>
>
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Did you ran irxevent (as the same user as mythfrontend) before you start 
up your mythfrontend? It's important.!
Did you try to generate an symbolic link from ~mythtv/.lircrc to 
~mythtv/.myth/lirrc ?

Greez

Oliver



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