[mythtv-users] lirc and irrecord die with: irman_init(): Unknown error 4294967293

[Ali Asad Lotia]

i've tried it that way, with the lirc_serial module inserted and had
even less success with it. apparently, with the irman based devices,
you need to have lircd listen to the serial port using the regular
serial port drivers and not the lirc_serial module.

when i specify the irman driver and build from source, it doesn't even
build the lirc_serial.ko module, which would indicate that the modules
aren't needed when using the irman driver in lirc. on another gentoo
machine at my office, i was able to get it to run irrecord and irw
when lircd was monitoring ttyS0, its just on this box that it appears
to have a problem.

so running lircd -d /dev/ttyS0 and then running irw, i was able to
have the client attach to the deamon and successfully get signals from
the remote.

On 9/2/05, Justin Hornsby <justin.hornsby2 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Ali Asad Lotia wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I know that this may be OT, but I've seen other lirc related posts on
> > this list and am sufficiently desperate. Please accept my apologies if
> > this is OT enough to be annoying. I initially posted this to the lirc
> > list, but have not received a response yet and am hoping that a fellow
> > mythtv user may have seen something similar and fixed it.
> >
> > I am currently trying to set up lirc with a IRA-3 receiver that i
> > purchased from Home Electronics
> > (http://www.home-electro.com/ira3.php). The receiver is hooked up to
> > serial port 1 (ttyS0) and when I cat /dev/ttyS0, i can see it print
> > output to the screen when I send it commands from a Radio Shack
> > 15-2116 remote control.
> >
> > I have installed libirman-0.4.3, which I compiled from source after
> > applying the patch for IRA-3 devices that Pratap Pereira release on
> > this list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10826076).
> > I am running Gentoo and the kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r9. The serial
> > driver is compiled into the kernel. I installed lirc-0.7.2 using the
> > Gentoo ebuild and did pass options to build the irman driver when
> > installing.
> <snip>
> 
> Well, why not try doing what the LIRC documentation recommends and take
> the serial port drivers out of the kernel... if the system is already
> allocating /dev/ttyS0, then LIRC can't use it.
> 
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