[mythtv-users] lirc problems in ubuntu 9.04

[Scott Traurig]

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