[mythtv-users] LIRC in Mythbuntu 8.04.1 (now 8.10!!!!)

[Harry Devine]

steve.goodey at bt.com wrote:
> No, I think you are correct that com1 is 03f8. 
>
> Do you remember modifying a file hardware.conf on the previous version
> of Mythbuntu when you got the remote to work?
>
> Steve 
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harry Devine [mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net] 
>> Sent: 04 November 2008 13:40
>> To: Goodey,SJ,Steve,ASAC6N R
>> Cc: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC in Mythbuntu 8.04.1 (now 8.10!!!!)
>>
>> steve.goodey at bt.com wrote:
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>>>> I'm pretty certain that I didn't make any typos (well, I 
>>>>         
>> did at first 
>>     
>>>> but corrected it).  Here's what I did:
>>>> 1) setup a custom remote in MCC
>>>> 2) copied my lircd.conf for my remote to /etc/lirc and 
>>>>         
>> made it root 
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>>>> owner and root group
>>>> 3) copied my lircrc to /home/hdevine/.lirc, renamed it to 
>>>>         
>> mythtv and 
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>>>> gave it hdevine owner and hdevine group
>>>> 4) added modprobe lirc_serial to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
>>>> 5) ran the dpkg-reconfigure setserial command and chose manual
>>>> 6) modified /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf by adding 
>>>>         
>> "setserial 
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>>>> /dev/ttyS0 uart none"
>>>> 7) copied the autoserial.conf to /etc/serial.conf
>>>> 8) rebooted
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear, I originally had "/dev/tty/S0 uart none" in 
>>>> autoserial.conf and that didn't work.  I realized that it 
>>>>         
>> needed to 
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>>>> be /dev/ttys0 instead so I tried that and got nothing.  
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>> Then, based 
>>     
>>>> on the /var/log/messages error, I changed it to "setserial 
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>> /dev/ttys0 
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>>>> uart none" as it is now.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully someone has some idea what I'm missing.  Thanks 
>>>>         
>> again for 
>>     
>>>> the help!
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>> Harry,
>>> How about looking in dmesg, any other info/error messages there?
>>> Something about port already in use?
>>>
>>> Steve. 
>>>
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>>>       
>> dmesg shows the following:
>>
>> [   18.409777] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
>> [   18.414347] lirc_serial: port 03f8 already in use
>> [   18.414350] lirc_serial: use 'setserial /dev/ttySX uart none'
>> [   18.414351] lirc_serial: or compile the serial port driver 
>> as module and
>> [   18.414353] lirc_serial: make sure this module is loaded first
>>
>> I thought that 03f8 was com1, which is where it's plugged 
>> into.  I never moved it when I reinstalled the OS.  Should I 
>> change /dev/ttyS0 to ttyS1?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harry
>>
>>
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>   
Nope, never had to touch that file.  I see that it exists in /etc/lirc, 
but based on its contents, I don't think I have to touch it.  It doesn't 
mention anything in there about ports, etc.

Haryr