[mythtv-users] FC4 2.6.15 lirc install HOWTO

[Colin Smillie]

On 3/11/06, Mark Johannessen <mfjlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Per cat /var/log/messages | grep lircd I see:
>
> caught signal
> lircd(userspace) ready
> accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> removed client
>
>
Do you see any IVTV problems?  I had this problems as part of upgrading IVTV
and LIRC.   I seem to remember some i2c IVTV errors but I never did isolate
the problem.

The good news is that I have everything working now using
2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp.  My packages are:

ivtv-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp-0.4.3-103.rhfc4.at
ivtv-0.4.3-103.rhfc4.at
lirc-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp-0.8.0-55.rhfc4.at
lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc4.at

My modprobe.conf looks like:

# lirc module part 1
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options lirc_i2c debug=1

# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 ivtv
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
#alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
#alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 cardtype=1

# lirc module part 2
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c

My lircd.conf is quite old.  When I encountered problems I rebuilt my
lircd.conf because Jarod's guide isn't very clear what remote it supports.