[mythtv-users] lirc + serial.o conflict?

[Bill Oberman]

Hi,

I have lirc working, but it doesn't seem right the way I made it work.
I was wondering if anyone had any advice?

Background: a red hat 9 machine, setup using Jarod's guide and Axel's
rpms.  I purchased an "el cheapo" Packard Bell remote (from
tekgems.com).  I hooked up the receiver to my serial port.  Then I did:
# apt-get install lirc-kmdl-$MYKERNEL
# apt-get install lirc

I copied:
/usr/share/doc/lirc-0.7.0/remotes/packard_bell/lircd.conf.packard_bell
to:
/etc/lircd.conf

I added this to /etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8

I ran: /sbin/depmod -a

But, when I went to /sbin/modprobe lirc_serial, I got a conflict error
with serial.o.  I can't figure out what module loaded this??  But, if I:
/sbin/rmmod serial
I can then modprobe successfully.  Then everything works.

On boot, I had the same issue, so I added this to rc.local:
/sbin/rmmod serial
/sbin/modprobe lirc_serial

And, this seems to work, but seems like a hack to me.  I'll put the
complete contents of /etc/modules.conf at the end of this e-mail.  My
only guess right now is the kernel is loading serial?  

Thanks,

William

cat /etc/modules.conf
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates
# default path
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/v4l2
alias eth0 3c59x
# For lirc
alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8 
# For ivtv
#path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/media/video

# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
#options ivtv debug=1 
options tuner type=2 
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner

# For bttv and saa7134
alias char-major-81-1 bttv
#options tuner type=2

alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 es1371
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1.0-4363