[mythtv-users] lirc issues after vacation

Davey McWatters daveyiv at adelphia.net
Fri Jan 5 04:53:32 UTC 2007


devsk wrote:
> > The only thing I can think of that would have broken it was
> > some updates I installed today
>
> can you list those updates? More people can eyeball them and may be 
> know if those affect the lirc somehow.
>
> what are you using as your IR device?
>
> -devsk
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Davey McWatters <daveyiv at adelphia.net>
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:39:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] lirc issues after vacation
>
> devsk wrote:
> > lircd exits if one connection fails due to failed ioctls on the device
> > (/var/log/messages will have a message to this effect). I went thru
> > this recently where lircd would start fine but would disappear after I
> > invoked 'irw', which will return with 'connection refused'. The reason
> > in my case was that the in-kernel driver (pvrusb2) didn't have the
> > support for lirc for the chip 24xx. I downloaded the tar and built the
> > driver myself, and it all started working.
> >
> > so, check to see if your driver for the IR device is working properly
> > and /dev/lirc/0 is getting created. See if you are using in-kernel
> > version now whereas you used the self-built latest module earlier.
> >
> > other possibility (in case you didn't upgrade kernel, change any
> > modules, or upgrade lirc) could be udev upgrade messed up something
> > and is no longer creating /dev/lirc/0.
> >
> > -devsk
> >
> How can I check to see if my driver for the IR device is working
> properly? If I try to go into /dev/lirc/ it says not a directory. How do
> I know if I am using the in-kernel version vs a compiled version? I
> downloaded the source for lirc and did the make install procedure again
> to no avail. The only thing I can think of that would have broken it was
> some updates I installed today, but I unchecked off of the ones dealing
> with kernel headers and stuff to try to avoid this issue...
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I'm using Ubuntu Edgy Eft and I used the update manager to install them. 
Is there a way that I can see the history of what updates were 
installed? I can't find it. Also I am using a Hauppauge PVR150 IR


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