[mythtv-users] lirc problems in ubuntu 9.04
Scott Traurig
straurig at comcast.net
Wed Jul 22 01:26:24 UTC 2009
OK, I think I'm getting somewhere. Not all the way there, but somewhere.
After Jan's help realizing that the modules were not loading I checked here
for lirc_pvr150 and lirc_serial modules:
/lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/kernel/ubuntu/lirc
and found them there.
I also found them in:
/lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/updates/dkms
with the suffix .ko appended, i.e. lirc_pvr150.ko
I also find them similarly in here:
/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/kernel/ubuntu/lirc
/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/updates/dkms
modprobe -l |grep lirc finds lirc_pvr150.ko however
modprobe lirc_pvr150.ko fails with FATAL: Module lirc_pvr150.ko not found.
Modprobe lirc_pvr150 hangs. This seems to be the crux of the matter.
Just to add insult to injury in /etc/init.d/lirc I have the following line:
modprobe -k $mod 2> /dev/null || MODULES_MISSING=true
I don't know what the hell the -k switch is for and it's not in man. I
changed it to:
modprobe $mod 2> /dev/null || MODULES_MISSING=true
and now everything loads on my $MODULE_LIST in my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
except lirc_pvr150 which will hang gnome (pending on completion of modprobe
I assume) on boot or if I do it later just hang the modprobe process. If I
remove lirc_pvr150 from the list it all comes up just fine with lirc_serial
loaded (the only other thing on the list).
So it appears I've repaired /etc/init.d/lirc but until it is determined why
modprobe lirc_pvr150 hangs I'm screwed.
What say you Jan et al?
Thanks,
Scott
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