[mythtv-users] IR transmitter

pete tyrstag at earthlink.net
Sat Jun 26 11:13:37 EDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 10:43, Mark D. Vaughn wrote:
> William wrote:
> 
> >>Now I need to change channels on my dish receiver.
> >>
> >>I'm having trouble setting up an IR transmitter following the 
> >>how-to from a link that was sent to me. I don't remember who 
> >>sent it. The link is; 
> >>http://www.mmdsi.com/mythtv/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Is there a better/newer/easier method of doing this?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I cannot help you with the IR transmitter problem but I can tell you that I
> >have had good luck using a MyBlaster IR transmitter with my Dishnetwork
> >system. I have posted about this before so search the archives for more
> >info.
> >
> >Good luck!
> >
> >  
> >
> I had the same problem as well when setting this up on Fedora Core 1.  
> What I did, and it seemed to work well for me was to just manually edit 
> modules.conf directly.  I basically just cut and pasted the lines that 
> are supposed to go into /ect/modutils/lirc_ledxmit  into 
> /etc/modules.conf.  I changed to line that says "below ledxmit_serial 
> ledxmit_dev" to "*add* below ledxmit_serial ledxmit_dev" and then 
> uncommented the proper line to choose my serial port.
> 
> Other than those changes I followed the howto to the letter.  I belive 
> /sbin/depmod -a also worked after I made those changes.
> 
> # setup ledxmit/lirc kernel modules
> alias char-major-72 ledxmit_serial
> add below ledxmit_serial ledxmit_dev
> # !!! note DEFAULT is COM2 !!!   how, you ask? see configure statement 
> in myth-ledxmit.sh script above.
> # for COM1, simply uncomment the following:
> # options ledxmit_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
> # for COM2, do nothing, or uncomment the following:
> # options ledxmit_serial irq=3 io=0x2f8
> 
> good luck!
> 
Thanks Mark,
But, I had already tried that  :(

I still get all the "unresolved Symbols"

Any other ideas?

--Pete



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