[mythtv-users] added HD capture card, now lirc doesn't detect remote

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 21, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Kurt Yoder wrote:

> Hi list
>
> I have a myth 0.20 system that was running perfectly with one
> Hauppauge PVR 150. Wanting to get HD OTA, I bought a pchdtv HD-5500.
> After installing it, lirc suddenly can no longer receive IR events. I
> ran "irw" and pushed some buttons on my remote. Before installing the
> HD card this would result in IR events. Now it shows nothing.
> Thankfully, the IR blaster still works.
>
> My guess is that the HD-5500 somehow grabbed /dev/lirc0? It took
> over /dev/video0 and /dev/dsp, bumping the PVR 150 onto /dev/video1
> and /dev/dsp1. However, I'm not seeing anything like a /dev/lirc1,
> and the major/minor numbers look like they should belong to the PVR  
> 150:
>
> root at corn:~/download# ls -l /dev/lirc*
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 Nov 20 00:14 /dev/lirc0
> srw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 Nov 21 22:41 /dev/lircd
> prw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Nov 20 00:14 /dev/lircm
>
> (according to http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=24, the
> major/minor numbers 61,0 are what the PVR 150 should have)
>
> Has anyone else installed these two together and still managed to use
> their PVR 150 remote control?
>
> Myth 0.20
> Linux 2.6.17
> lirc 0.8.0
>
> --
>
> Kurt Yoder
> http://yoderhome.com

Did you upgrade your kernel when you installed the HD-5500 drivers?  
It looks like you might not have the lirc kernel module installed in  
the version of the kernel you're running. I've got an HD-5500 and a  
PVR-350 on the same machine without that issue.