[mythtv-users] problems with 0.19 release and 0.19 svn (revision 9668) and lirc

Khanh Tran khanh at khanh.net
Thu Apr 13 21:55:03 UTC 2006


On 4/12/06, Khanh Tran <khanh at khanh.net> wrote:
> On 4/12/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > On 04/12/2006 06:58 PM, Khanh Tran wrote:
> > > I went back and forth between a few svn revisions, strictly in the
> > > "-fixes".  I finally got revision 9579 to actually report something in
> > > the lircd log file:
> > >
> > > Apr 12 18:35:45 livingroom lircd 0.7.1: accepted new client on
> > > /var/run/lirc/lircd
> > > Apr 12 18:37:07 livingroom lircd 0.7.1: read() failed
> > > Apr 12 18:37:07 livingroom lircd 0.7.1: Connection reset by peer
> > > Apr 12 18:37:07 livingroom lircd 0.7.1: removed client
> > >
> > > However, the remote still dies after about 1 minute of use.  I can't
> > > for the life of me figure out what revision I was last on that was
> > > working, but I tried a few before and after and none of them work
> > > perfectly.
> >
> > TTBOMK, lack of a message with a version of Myth compiled to use LIRC
> > means that it successfully connected.  If your Myth is compiled to use
> > LIRC and it fails, it provides an error message.
> >
> > To see if your Myth was compiled with LIRC support, you can (and, IIRC,
> > you have already) use ldd to see what libraries mythfrontend links against.
> >
> > Mike
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>
> the mythfrontend compiled and linked against the lirc library:
>
> liblirc_client.so.0 => /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0 (0x41b2c000)
>
> the remote works in all cases, just dies after 1 minute of use.  I
> just managed to get revision 9579 to work somewhat.  It still fails
> after 1 minute of use on a cold boot, but if I just restart the
> frontend, it works much longer and hasn't stopped since.  I couldn't
> even get that much to work under the other various revisions.
>

along this thought... If I'm using lirc RPMs, do I need to have
lirc-devel installed to compile MythTV?  I've switched between lirc
from source and RPM a few times on this box...


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