[mythtv-users] LIRC and Hauppauge question

[ray cielencki]

At 01:14 11/22/2003, Lance wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> > I just got the two-for-$whatever special.  Products came quickly, had
> > USPS tracking numbers so that I knew when it left the post office in my
> > town for delivery.
> >
> > The receiver works with the remote that comes with it and with a
> > Pinnacle remote I had lying around.  It is _not_ sensitive to
> > fluorescent lights like the crappy Pinnacle receiver was.  It probably
> > works with other remotes, I just didn't try it out after getting the
> > Pinnacle remote working.
>
>I got my two-for-$whatever remotes but I'm having problems with lircd.
>I'm running RH9, mythtv and lircd installed from the atrpms package.
>Maybe it's just too late to be dealing with this :)
>
>Getting this from lircd:
>ircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: could not open config file '/etc/lircd.conf'
>lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: No such file or directory
>lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: lircd(hauppauge) ready
>lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: could not get hardware features
>lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: this device driver does not support the new LIRC
>interface
>lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: make sure you use a current version of the driver
>lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: caught signal
>Terminated
>
>And in /var/adm/messages:
>Nov 22 01:06:35 pluto lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: No such file or directory
>Nov 22 01:06:35 pluto lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: lircd(hauppauge) ready
>Nov 22 01:06:37 pluto irrecord: could not get hardware features
>Nov 22 01:06:37 pluto irrecord: this device driver does not support the
>new LIRC interface
>Nov 22 01:06:37 pluto irrecord: make sure you use a current version of the
>driver
>Nov 22 01:06:40 pluto lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: accepted new client on
>/dev/lircd
>Nov 22 01:06:40 pluto lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: could not get hardware
>features
>Nov 22 01:06:40 pluto lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: this device driver does not
>support the new LIRC interface
>Nov 22 01:06:40 pluto lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: make sure you use a current
>version of the driver
>Nov 22 01:06:40 pluto lircd 0.7.0pre2[2163]: caught signal
>
>
>irrecord gives me (same with and without lircd running):
>[root at pluto root]# irrecord /tmp/foo
>
>irrecord -  application for recording IR-codes for usage with lirc
>
>Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus(lirc at bartelmus.de)
>
>irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? --> close it, check
>permissions)
>
>
>My /dev/lircd is a symlink to /dev/ttyS2.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>

i'm somewhat confused: its partially the dextromethorphan, its also the 
subject... this may have been better as a new thread.

the first couple of things that come to mind:

1. i'm not sure how Axel builds lirc and whether it will work in your 
situation. there has been a thread about this in the last couple of weeks 
which may be worth a look. the log line "lircd(hauppauge) ready" looks to 
me like its expecting an i2c device whereas it seems you have a serial 
receiver. what is in your /etc/modules.conf file for loading lirc? what 
does "/sbin/lsmod | grep lirc" indicate is loaded? worst case scenario, you 
may need to download lirc's cvs and compile it yourself for lirc_serial.

2. is your device hooked up to your second serial port? you may want to try 
other serial ports on your board.

/rayc