[mythtv-users] lirc problems in ubuntu 9.04

[Scott Traurig]

Hi Jan,

Again, thanks so much for your help.

> Scott,
>
> I'm on 8.04, not 9.04. But your modprobe -l output leads me to the 
> following question: is your modules setup out-of-the-box (doesn't seem
> so).

I couldn't tell you. My box started life as an 7.10 box and has been
upgraded three times using the provided upgrade mechanism through 8.04, 8.10
and now 9.04. I would assume that's as out of the box as one can get short
of a fresh install.

> So they're in /lib/modules (etc). Havr you changed the location of your 
> modules? If so, at what stage in the boot process do you tell modprobe to 
> look in the alternate location?

I haven't changed anything explicitly and don't tell modprobe to do anything
in any explicit way. It is what it is after the upgrade manager gets done
with it and it has always worked until now.

> I take that back: on my 9.04 system the output looks similar to yours 
> (i.e. without the leading /lib/modules... path):

> But note that all of these modules are in the kernel/ubuntu/lirc area; no
> dkms stuff involved.

An excellent clue!

> I reiterate my earlier advice: please manually carry out the two modprobe
> commands and post output (both of modprobe itself and the corresponding 
> dmesg output).
>
> Cheers, Jan

OK, here is the result of modprobe -l | grep lirc

kernel/ubuntu/lirc/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.ko
kernel/ubuntu/lirc/lirc_serial_igor/lirc_serial_igor.ko
kernel/ubuntu/lirc/lirc_gpio/lirc_gpio.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_sasem.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_sir.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_i2c.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_mceusb2.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_bt829.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_atiusb.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_serial.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_ttusbir.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_cmdir.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_pvr150.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_igorplugusb.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_it87.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_ite8709.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_streamzap.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_dev.ko
updates/dkms/lirc_mceusb.ko

The result of lsmod | grep lirc is null. No response at all to that.

I see nothing relevant in dmesg but here
is the result of dmesg | grep module:

[    1.578275] brd: module loaded
[    1.578559] loop: module loaded
[   19.172128] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.

Thanks, 

Scott