[mythtv-users] Lirc with streamzap remote on FC4

[Tom Greer]

I need help installing and configuring lirc on a new Fedora Core 4 system
using a Streamzap remote.  The system is an AMD64 box.

I've been following Jorad's wonderful Myth TV on Fedora HOW TO document.
Thank you,  Jarod!

Everything has worked great until I tried to implement lirc with Streamzap
drivers.  After I installed lirc using yum as directed, I tried to do a
modprobe litc_streamzap and go a fatal error saying that driver was unknown.

So I did a "yum remove lirc", followed by a "yum remove lirc-kmdl-$KVER".

Then I downloaded the lirc-0.8.0 tarball from lirc.org.  After extracting, I
ran setup.sh and selected the Streamzap remote, then ran configure, make and
make install.

Next I ran "chmod 666 /dev/lir*".

Then I ran "modprobe lirc_streamzap" followed by "modprobe "lirc_dev".  (The
lirc.org documentation says I need both drivers.)

Next I edited /etc/modprobe.conf and inserted the line "alias char-major-61
lirc_streamzap" at the end of the file.

Everything seemed good so far.  No error messages.

Next, I ran "/sbin/service lircd start" and received error message "lircd:
unrecognized service".

Undeterred, I tried "mode2", which told me:
mode2: error opening /dev/lirc
mode2: No such device

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling.  Same results.

"/sbin/modprobe -l | grep lirc" shows:
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/misc/lirc_streamzap.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/misc/lirc_dev.ko

"/sbin/lsmod | grep lirc" tell me:
lirc_streamzap         49540  0
lirc_dev               50656  1 lirc_streamzap

"dmesg | grep lirc" gives me:
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
usbcore: registered new driver lirc_streamzap
lirc_streamzap $Revision: 1.15 $ registered

"ls -l /dev/lir*" shows:
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 61, 0 Feb 22 20:23 /dev/lirc
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Feb 22 06:10 /dev/lircd
prw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Feb 22 06:07 /dev/lircm

I been fighting this for many days.  I've read boatloads of posts about lirc
and tried everything that seemed related; but nothing has changed the mode2
error message.   If I could get mode2 to run, I am sure I could fix the
mssing sbin directory entry and run irw successfully.

Help please!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20060223/7c751e9a/attachment.htm