[mythtv-users] lircd not starting; module not loading

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 01:30:37 UTC 2006


On 28/10/06, Owen Mehegan <owen at nerdnetworks.org> wrote:
> Whenever my Myth box reboots, lircd fails to start up. It reboots so
> infrequently that I hadn't bothered tracking down the problem until
> tonight. What seems to be happening is that the lirc_serial module
> isn't loading, and this prevents lircd from starting as the system
> comes up.
>
> I have these lines in my /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
> install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/
> modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial
>
> Any ideas?

Modprobe lirc_serial and start lircd from rc.local, after turning off
the lircd service.

Nick

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