[mythtv-users] Save my WAF: HD-PVR IR blaster problems - mythbuntu 64bit - valid lirc_t numbers?

Fri Mar 26 16:38:19 UTC 2010

On 03/26/2010 08:09 AM, Randy Thomae wrote:
> Hi. First off, I am a Linux Noob - sorry in advance.
>
> I have never posted to a mailing list before, please let me know if I
> should do this differently.
>
> I have been working on this for about a month, and the WAF (Wife
> Acceptance Factor) is at an all time low.
>
> I started with setting up mythbuntu from a 32bit install CD on an old p4
> 2Ghz. Set-up went great. I followed the mythtv HDPVR wiki
> page(http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR), and got IR channel
> changing working pretty quickly. Unfortunately, I eventually figured out
> that my old hardware couldn't handle the HDPVR (old mobo reqd SATA and
> USB2.0 cards to interface with the  hard drive and HDPVR), and all my
> recordings had skips in them.
>
> So I decided to take the plunge and switch over my main machine (Q6600)
> to Ubuntu from Vista "Ultimate"(snickers appropriate). I followed the
> same steps, with the exception of using a 64bit install CD.
> slick at mBAQ:~$ uname -a
> Linux mBAQ 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> On this install, I can not make lirc read the satellite codes in
> lircd.conf. I have tried about 20 different approaches. Yesterday, I
> went back to the beginning and slowly stepped through the process. Here
> is the good news:
>
> [   24.352787] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 251
> [   24.354653] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR driver initializing
> [   24.356753] lirc_zilog: chip found with RX and TX
> [   24.356848] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
> [   24.356903] Zilog/Hauppauge i2c IR 1-0071: firmware: requesting
> haup-ir-blaster.bin
> [   26.822145] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR blaster firmware version
> 1.3.0 loaded
> [   26.826918] lirc_zilog: chip found with RX and TX
> [   26.827343] lirc_dev: lirc_register_driver: sample_rate: 0
> [   27.073189] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR blaster firmware version
> 2.1.0 loaded
> [   27.073228] lirc_zilog: initialization complete
>
> Here is the bad news:
> slick at mBAQ:~$ cat /var/log/daemon.log | grep -i lircd
> Mar 26 04:51:33 mBAQ lircd-0.8.6[1280]: error in configfile line 62:
> Mar 26 04:51:33 mBAQ lircd-0.8.6[1280]: "2147549184": must be a valid
> (lirc_t) number
> Mar 26 04:51:33 mBAQ lircd-0.8.6[1280]: reading of file
> '/etc/lirc//lircd.conf' failed
> Mar 26 04:51:33 mBAQ lircd-0.8.6[1280]: reading of config file failed
> Mar 26 04:51:33 mBAQ lircd-0.8.6[1311]: lircd(default) ready, using
> /var/run/lirc/lircd
>
> Remember this worked on my 32 bit install on ancient hardware. I think I
> was using 2.6.31-14 on that box.
>
> I have googled  all week for this problem and found a couple of things:
> 1. people "fix" this problem by deleting all the satellite codes from
> their lircd.conf. Unfortunately I have a DirecTv sat box using codeset
> 1_125, so that wont work for me.
> 2. Some people seem to be using this in 64bit Linux, but they may all be
> using Fedora? Is anyone out there using mythbuntu 64bit and HD-PVR IR
> blasting to a Satellite box?
> 3. Some people were posting about a 64bit bug related to this?
> 4. Jarod Wilson - (to whom anyone wanting to use an HD-PVR owes their
> next born child for all of his incredible work on this - THANK
> YOU!!!!!!!) has made a number of patches, some include changing the
> variable types: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/F-12/lirc/
> I tried applying these patches, but I was not able to successfully do
> that. I also noticed that he is running 64 bit and said these patches
> would help 32bit users - the opposite of my situation although I did
> notice he is running Fedora.

Have you looked VERY closely at lines 61 through 63 of your lircd.conf? 
Recent versions of lirc seem to be more intolerant of minor errors in 
the format and content of the lircd.conf and lircrc files.

A quick google pointed to this page:

http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=24&cp=5

which has some discussion about the raw codes and code sets, and points 
to an lircd.conf file which you could try:

http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/lmilk/lircd.conf

Geoff

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