[mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV

[Mike]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Robert Tsai wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 05:44:40PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>>     
>>> On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Ben Holt wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 21/01/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I know the sensors use the i2c bus, as do my Hauppauge cards. The
>>>>> "sensor-detect" program seemed to want to activate the "sensors"
>>>>> on the PVR cards (I said no). Is this a known problem and has
>>>>> anybody had experience with it or perhaps even come up with a
>>>>> fix?
>>>>>           
>>>> I ran into this a while back and IIRC I read somewhere at the time
>>>> that using lmsensors with ivtv causes conflicts.  Removing
>>>> lmsensors fixed the problem.  No idea if that will change at any
>>>> point in the future.
>>>>         
>>> That's about what I had decided, but I've run into posts from folks
>>> running lm_sensors with MythTV. I think that would have worked if
>>> they had a mobo that used ISA access type sensors, but I'm  not
>>> ready  to replace the motherboard just to measure temps.
>>>
>>> Guess I'll just continue putting my hand by the exhaust fan and
>>> seeing how warm it feels :-)
>>>       
>> I'm not sure how applicable this is, but I'm running lm-sensors just
>> fine on my HD-3000 system. What if you compile all the sensor-related
>> stuff as a loadable module, and then only load the modules you want,
>> and don't load the sensor-related module for your PVR card?
>>
>>     
> Yeah, the HD-3000 doesn't use ivtv or i2c, so it makes sense that  
> you're working OK. What you suggest could probably be made to work,  
> although there might still be problems on the i2C bus. I guess if I  
> get a lot of free time I might play with it some more.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, and the confirmation that it seems to be  
> only the i2c stuff that is causing problems.
>   

My problem was that it just wouldn't change the channel ever. It would 
record, just a bunch of stuff I didn't expect to see. I seem to remember 
lm_sensors showing the ivtv cards. You'd think there has to be a way to 
make it ignore the ivytv cards. And ivtv or mythtv ignore the other i2c 
devices if need be.

-Mike