[mythtv-users] Lirc - Still No Go

[James Kaufman]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:01:16PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> James Kaufman writes:
> 
> If /dev/lirc0 (not /dev/lirc) isn't there, it means that the lirc kernel 
> modules are not loaded.
> 
> What distro are you on?  If Fedora, the 0.7 lirc build in Fedora Extras is 
> utterly broken, and cannot be used.  It does not build or install the 
> necessary kernel modules.

I am running FC5 with the latest updates from Axel, including these
rpms:

lirc-0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc5.at.noarch.rpm
lirc-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5-0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc5.at.i686.rpm
lirc-lib-0.8.1-cvs20060325_57.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm

I force lirc_i2c to load using rc.local. Then I see these messages:

Apr 16 08:11:56 mythtvbe kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
Apr 16 08:11:57 mythtvbe kernel: bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
Apr 16 08:11:57 mythtvbe kernel: bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
Apr 16 08:11:57 mythtvbe kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded

And that's all she wrote. So it appears that the module isn't
attaching to the PVR board.

> 
> Hopefully you have a good version of lirc built and installed, you just 
> forgot to load the kernel module:
> 
> modprobe lirc_i2c
> 
> And, hopefully, you'll get a bunch of junk in /var/log/messages, that ends 
> with something like this:
> 
> Apr  2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
> Apr  2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok 
> [client=Hauppauge IR, addr=18]
> Apr  2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: 
> sample_rate: 10
> 
> After which, you should have /dev/lirc0 (not /dev/lirc).

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