[mythtv-users] OT: using redhat9 and mythtv0.11 atrpms...can't get lirc to work.

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 09:36 US/Pacific, and wrote:

> I know this is might not be the ideal place to ask about redhat, but 
> as it relates to mythtv I hope I won't get completely flamed for 
> posing a few ignorant user questions. So here goes:
>
> I've installed redhat9, atrpm and mythv-suite following the exclelent 
> and user frendly howto from Jarod, but I can't get lirc to work... 
> Have anyone managed?

There's  a problem w/lirc not liking the latest version of i2c patched 
into the latest ATrpms kernels. Your options are:

1) Downgrade your kernel to an earlier ATrpms kernel
2) Switch to a different kernel that isn't patched w/i2c 2.8.0, but 
does have v4l2 support
3) Patch the lirc source before you try to compile ( look here: 
http://delvare.free.fr/i2c/ )
4) Give it a few days, because a pre-patched lirc binary rpm will be 
made publicly available on ATrpms (I'm using it right now, giving it a 
good testing shakedown)

> The automatically included lirc rpm seems to be for a more recent 
> kernel than the one distributed by Berlin and end up in another 
> lib/modules subdirectory from my running kernel.. 2.4.20-20.4 instead 
> of 2.4.20-19.23 (the system isn't running, but I think I got the 
> version numbers correct)

Yes, Axel just updated the kernel, and I haven't got a new rev of that 
howto posted yet. Apt has issues installing the right kernel modules 
sometimes, so it is just grabbing the newest ones...

> I've tried compiling from cvs source ,but I can't get it to work even 
> after a complete config-make dep-make-make modules using the included 
> kernel config....

Won't work. :)

> Can I just switch to a vanilla kernel kernel.org source (2.4.22) or 
> will that break anything in the Mythtv installation?

You could do that.

> It seems the redhat flavoured kernel from Berlin has i2c and other 
> patches that might be required......

Actually, the stock Red Hat kernels can be made to work, but the nice 
thing with the ATrpms kernels is that they are fully patched w/v4l2 
support. The i2c patch isn't really necessary for MythTV.

> Any insights?

I'd say give it a day or two. I haven't had any problems w/the lirc 
rpm, so it ought to be going public shortly... I'll give Axel a shout 
and see how soon we can have those posted up...

> Is there another trick to use to get it to work (i've tried just 
> copying the drivers to the running kernel module directory, but that 
> didn't work... ;-)

No, that would definitely not work.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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