[mythtv-users] Re: My Lirc problems - I'm dying here..

[Shay - MythTV]

I only see irw in /usr/local/bin.  Otherwise, I don't see any lirc stuff in 
either of those places.

At 01:23 PM 9/19/2003, you wrote:
>I'm also using a pvr250, rh9 and atrpms along Jarods howto, and I have 
>great problems getting lircd to work.
>
>One thing that I found a while ago was the the lirc atrpms installed into 
>/usr/bin and the 0.7 cvs source into /usr/local/bin (...at least on my 
>system), and that was making lirc fail because it on my system had two 
>versions (one from my 2.4.20-8 and one from my 2.4.20-20_23.1 install).
>
>I had to manually delete all of this,  install from cvs and edit the 
>/etc/init.d/lircd to point to the right directories.
>It's working great now.
>
>Did you try anything like this?
>rgds
>anders
>
>On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 08:38 AM, Shay - MythTV wrote:
>
>>At 10:51 PM 9/18/2003, you wrote:
>>>On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 09:06 US/Pacific, Shay - MythTV wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I seem to recall that lirc_dev has some hooks into bttv, as does the 
>>>>>tuner module. However, note that only one bttv loaded up on my box 
>>>>>(0.7.104, since I never put 0.9.11 on it).
>>>>>
>>>>>Shay, try uninstalling the ATrpms bttv 0.9.11 kernel modules, and see 
>>>>>what happens... If I get bored (not likely), I'll try adding them to 
>>>>>my setup to see if it breaks things. It shouldn't, since the 0.9.11 
>>>>>bttv should just supplant 0.7.104, per the directives at the top of 
>>>>>your modules.conf file, but I'm not seeing what is causing both of 
>>>>>them to load on your system.
>>>>
>>>>I ended up just doing a format/reinstall..  And guess what, It's still 
>>>>not working.. if I do a depmod -a and then modprobe ivtv I >>> get:
>>>>
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: bttv: Host bridge is VIA 
>>>>Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: bttv: Host bridge is VIA 
>>>>Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost insmod: 
>>>>/lib/modules/2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: 
>>>>init_module: No such device
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by 
>>>>incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>>>>     You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost insmod: 
>>>>/lib/modules/2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: 
>>>>insmod bttv failed
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module rivatv
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 
>>>>(Hauppauge IR)
>>>>Sep 18 10:54:47 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: 
>>>>lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 10
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It's like it's trying to do more than it should..
>>>
>>>Yeah, that's what I was thinking...
>>>
>>>>I notice that your log doesn't have any of the mod stuff..  unless it's 
>>>>normally hidden..
>>>
>>>I can't recall. If you haven't done anything strange, we ought to have 
>>>pretty much identical log entries... What exactly do you have in 
>>>/etc/modules.conf, and what is your exact hardware setup?
>>
>>Modules.conf:
>>
>># For ivtv
>>path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/media/video
>># For bttv and saa7134
>>path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/v4l2
>># default path
>>path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
>>alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
>># ivtv modules setup
>>alias char-major-81 videodev
>>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>>options ivtv debug=1
>>options tuner type=2
>>options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
>>add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
>>add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c
>>
>>alias eth0 8139too
>>alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>>alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
>>post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc 
>>-L >/dev/null 2>&1
>>  || :
>>pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 
>>2>&1 |
>>| :
>>alias char-major-195 nvidia
>>
>>Hardware:
>>
>>MicroStar K7T Turbo Socket A ATX Motherboard
>>750mHz AMD Cpu
>>Hauppauge WINTV 250
>>8X AGP GeForce4 MX440 64MB DDR w/TV out
>>SoundBlaster Live!
>>RedHat 9.0
>>
>>I've gone step-by-step through your instructions.  No divergence.
>>Thanks for looking Jarod.
>>
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