[mythtv-users] lirc broken?

Dale Christ grosserhund at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 02:50:29 UTC 2007


I think I've tracked down the problem to the IVTV's firmware files.  It
looks like with the new version (0.10), they take larger firmware files for
encoding and decoding.  Since my PVR-350 sisn't recognize, lirc wasn't going
to work either

I run FC6 with ATrpms (Axel's RPMS)...



On 2/15/07, Jake <jakeisawake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i saw this error the other day.  for me it was because i'm using an
> ati remote and the kernel ati_remote driver was loading before lirc.
> this was with lirc 0.8.1 though i know that with older versions lirc
> would still create /dev/lirc0 even though ati_remote was loaded.
>
> once i removed and blacklisted the ati_remote module lirc was able to
> create all the devices just fine.  if you don't have an ati_remote
> then maybe something els is loading before lirc and preventing it from
> making the correct devices.
>
> On 2/15/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 15/02/07, Dale Christ <grosserhund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/14/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 15/02/07, Dale Christ <grosserhund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I went to update some lirc settings last night, now I'm getting
> these
> > > > > messages when I run irw:
> > > > >
> > > > > Feb 14 22:18:14 localhost lircd-0.8.1-CVS[3541]: lircd(userspace)
> > ready
> > > > > Feb 14 22:18:17 localhost lircd-0.8.1-CVS [3541]: accepted new
> client
> > on
> > > > > /dev/lircd
> > > > > Feb 14 22:18:17 localhost lircd-0.8.1-CVS [3541]: could not get
> file
> > > > > information for /dev/lirc
> > > > > Feb 14 22:18:17 localhost lircd-0.8.1-CVS[3541]: default_init():
> No
> > such
> > > > > file or directory
> > > > > Feb 14 22:18:17 localhost lircd-0.8.1-CVS[3541]: caught signal
> > > > >
> > > > > It also kills the lircd daemon.  As always, any help is greaty
> > > appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Some thoughts...
> > > >
> > > > 1) Make sure you have the correct LIRC kernel modules for your
> current
> > > kernel
> > >
> > >  Done.
> > >
> > > > 2) Make sure your LIRC modules are loaded ('modprobe lirc_i2c' if
> > > > using the PVR card's IR)
> > >
> > > Done
> > > > 3) What LIRC devices do you have when the modules are loaded? ( ls
> -l
> > > > /dev/lirc* )
> > >
> > > [root at mythbox ~]# ls /dev/lir*
> > > /dev/lircd
> >
> > The actual LIRC devices (/dev/lircd and /dev/lirc0 if using Fedora)
> > are still not present. What type of IR receiver are you using? You
> > likely need to load the LIRC driver (either lirc_i2c for Hauppauge
> > cards or lirc_serial for serial IR receivers).
> >
> > > 4) Do you have a lirc.rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d?
> > >
> > > Here  it is:
> > > KERNEL=="lirc[0-9]*",   NAME="lirc%n"
> > > KERNEL=="lirc0",                SYMLINK="lirc"
> >
> > Looks good. Should create /dev/lirc symlink to /dev/lirc0 when the
> > correct LIRC module is loaded.
> >
> > What's the output of
> >
> > # lsmod |grep "lirc"
> >
> > after you've loaded the correct LIRC module? You generally modprobe
> > the specific LIRC driver for your receiver which in turn pulls in
> > lirc_dev automatically.
> >
> > Nick
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