[mythtv-users] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc on Gentoo

[Drew Tomlinson]

I had MythTV 0.18 running just fine on a Gentoo 2.6.11-r6 kernel built 
with genkernel.  Then I upgraded the hardware to a Athlon 2800 XP 
processor running on an Asus motherboard with an Nvidia2 chipset and 
upgraded the kernel to 2.6.13-r5 from Gentoo sources using genkernel.  
The system has a PVR-250 and I added a pcHDTV-3000 card.  I mention this 
card in case there's some known conflicts.  I have used the 
module-rebuild and modules-update tools to recompile those modules that 
needed to be against the new kernel.  The specific modules were 
nvidia-kernel, ivtv, and svgalib.  I also reemerged lirc as that wasn't 
included in the module-rebuild tool.

But the two things I can't seem to get working are ALSA and lirc.  My 
sound card is an Audigy that uses the emu10k1 driver.  Following the 
Gentoo ALSA guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml), I've 
tried both the kernel and alsa-driver method.  The card is detected.  
All the 'cat /proc/asound' stuff as described in the "Issues" section of 
the guide produces expected results.  All my volume levels are up and 
unmuted in 'alsamixer'.  Yet I get no sound.  What else might I check?  
What should I delete to be sure all ALSA stuff is gone so I can try 
again from scratch?  Any other ideas on how to get this working?  This 
same card was working before my upgrades.

And lirc won't load.  I get these errors when inserting the module:

tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_dev
FATAL: Error inserting lirc_dev 
(/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in 
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c
WARNING: Error inserting lirc_dev 
(/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in 
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting lirc_i2c 
(/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_i2c.ko): Unknown symbol in 
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Any ideas on how to get this working as well?  And the modules.conf 
items used to be in /etc/modules.d/ivtv but now the new ivtv doesn't 
need it's lines as it autodetects.  So where should I put the lirc 
lines?  Leave them where they are?  Create a /etc/modules.d/lirc?

Thanks for any help.  I've Googled and experimented for over a week now 
but can't get these two issues resolve.  I MISS MY MYTHTV!!!  :)

Thanks,

Drew

 

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