[mythtv-users] Lirc - Still No Go

James Kaufman jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us
Sun Apr 16 00:47:49 UTC 2006


I'm just about done building my MythTV system. It works really well.
As long as I use the keyboard. lirc is a non-starter. Here is what I
know>

# lspci -v:
00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

# ivtvctl --list-capability
ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP ok
        Driver name   : ivtv
        Card type     : Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350
        Bus info      : 0000:00:0c.0
        Driver version: 1792
        Capabilities  : 0x010700F3

Video card:
nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

I can start the lircd daemon, but as soon as I run irw, the daemon dies with a
'caught signal' error.

Here is a snippet from my /var/log/messages showing what's installed:

Apr 13 18:49:44 mythtvbe yum: Installed: lirc-lib.i386 0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc5.at
Apr 13 18:49:45 mythtvbe yum: Installed: lirc-devices.noarch 0.7.0-1.rhfc5.at
Apr 13 18:49:47 mythtvbe yum: Updated: lirc.i386 0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc5.at
Apr 13 18:49:48 mythtvbe yum: Installed: lirc-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5.i686 0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc5.at
Apr 13 18:54:14 mythtvbe kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
Apr 13 18:54:14 mythtvbe kernel: bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
Apr 13 18:54:14 mythtvbe kernel: bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
Apr 13 18:54:14 mythtvbe kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
Apr 13 18:54:40 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: lircd(userspace) ready
Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: caught signal

I couldn't find any device naemd /dev/lirc, so I tried creating it by
hand and got the exact same error message.

# cd /dev
# mknod lirc c 61 0
# chmod 666 lirc

Any thoughts or pointers? I've read and reread Jarod's guide, but still
don't get it. I only have Linux systems so am not really able to test it
under Windows.

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Jim Kaufman
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