[mythtv-users] lirc woes: gray haupauge remote

[Eric Hammersley]

I fought with this ever since AT posted that he found the apt package issue.  I did apt-get remove on lirc and lirc-kmdl.  Then I double checked to make sure all the files were in fact removed from the system by downloading the RPMs from atrpms and running an rpm -qpl on them.  I then rebooted to make sure there were no stray old modules still loaded.  Next I ran an upgrade on the lirc-lib package to make sure it was up to the 20040311 level and verified this via the file time stamp and through Synaptic.  Once I was happy that the lirc-lib package was current I loaded the lirc-kmdl and lirc packages via Synaptic.  I felt I had more control via Synaptic.  I verified my modules.conf settings... rebooted one last time then chkconfig and service lircd start.  All was well.

Long way of doing it... yeah, but I'm by far not a linux expert so I danced with it for a little bit before I made it work.  I had been without the remote for a week and was growing tired of it.  Actually I was about an hour away from a total rebuild before I got it running.  I couldn't shake the 0308 version for the longest time.  I believe now it was due to lagging modules loaded while I was upgrading.  Lesson learned.  I hope this helps you in some way.

Kudos on Mythtv.  Wonderful program, my thanks to the many developers.


-----Original Message-----
From:	mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org on behalf of Robert Rozman
Sent:	Sat 3/13/2004 2:45 AM
To:	Discussion about mythtv
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Subject:	Re: [mythtv-users] lirc woes: gray haupauge remote
For me, lirc got working after 1-2 reboots.

Robert.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Colannino" <email2jamez at dslextreme.com>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:16 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] lirc woes: gray haupauge remote


> Hey everyone.  I've run into another problem that I've never had 
> before.  Again, I followed and re-checked the procedure outlined in 
> Jarod's guide, and while it's worked before, it refuses to work now :(  
> I've installed the lirc-kmdl package for my kernel as well as the lirc 
> package.  Everything looks good.  The chipset is detected when I check 
> dmesg and the lircd service starts up fine without complaining.  I 
> checked /var/log/messages and everything looked good in there as well.  
> However, I fired up irw and nothing happened.  I did copy lircd-g.conf 
> to /etc/lircd.conf, and I even created my user's .lircrc file.  However, 
> the remote doesn't do anything.  irxevent + mythfrontend doesn't do 
> anything either.  I fired up my old installation where I knew things 
> were working to check and see if it would work now.  I thought maybe the 
> batteries in the remote had gone bad or something.  But no such luck :(  
> It worked fine on my old installation, which leaves me wondering what 
> exactly I did wrong.  As far as I can tell, I did everything exactly the 
> same.  Anyone know what I should check next?  Anyone else having 
> similiar problems?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> James
> 
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