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<div class=Section1><pre>>>>><i> After John helped me find the lirc hardware conf file (thanks, John) I<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> completed the setup for the HDPVR ir blaster. The next step in the wiki<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> <a
href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/HDPVR">http://mythtv.org/wiki/HDPVR</a> is to find the right codeset. The wiki<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> suggests running a script, but since my box has only a few possibilities<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> I<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> decided to run the test commands manually. When I enter<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> irsend SEND_ONCE blaster 0_74_KEY_POWER<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> I get<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE blaster 0_74_KEY_POWER<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> irsend: hardware does not support sending<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> The only thing I'm not sure about from the setup is that step 6 in the<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> wiki<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> says I may have to adjust the device and socket values in the conf file.<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> There is no lirc0 in /dev and I don't know how to determine if there<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> should<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>>><i> be a non-null socket value.<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>>><i>If you have no /dev/lirc0, then you have no successfully loaded lirc<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>>><i>kernel drivers. Did you modprobe lirc_zilog?<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> Yes I did, and lsmod lists it. When I ran modprobe lirc_zilog, I got a<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> bunch of output I didn't know how to interpret, a line listing the module<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> file followed by several saying something about the kernel and a series of<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> hex numbers. I don't use modprobe enough to know if that's normal. Nothing<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>>><i> clearly looked like an error tho.<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>That doesn't sound normal. Please send that output along and I'll take<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>a look at it.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>I guess there was an error after all…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>[root@mythtv mythtv]# modprobe lirc_zilog <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Killed <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>[root@mythtv mythtv]# Message from syslogd@localhost at
Jan 17 08:20:54 ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> kernel:Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Message from syslogd@localhost at Jan 17 08:20:54 ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> kernel:last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-6/i2c-adapter/i2c-1/1-0071/firmware/1-0071/loading<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Message from syslogd@localhost at Jan 17 08:20:54 ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> kernel:Stack:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Message from syslogd@localhost at Jan 17 08:20:54 ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> kernel:Call Trace:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Message from syslogd@localhost at Jan 17 08:20:54 ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> kernel:Code: cd f4 90 e0 b8 c8 ff ff ff e9 35 01 00 00
48 63 c7 48 c7 c7 d0 f3 b0 a0 89 75 d8 48 8b 1c c5 20 fa b0 a0 e8 fd 07 91 e0
8b 75 d8 <44> 8b 63 28 41 39 f4 74 24 48 c7 c7 24 cf b0 a0 31 c0 e8 8f f4
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<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Message from syslogd@localhost at Jan 17 08:20:54 ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> kernel:CR2: 0000000000000028<o:p></o:p></p>
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