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

[Shay - MythTV]

What are the start/stop/restart scripts?

I did find lircd and lircmd in /usr/local/bin, which I deleted, but now I 
get a failure when I do [/sbin/service lircd start

Starting infrared remote control daemon: execvp: No such file or directory 
FAILED]

-Shay

At 04:38 PM 9/19/2003, you wrote:
>Sorry it was /usr/local/sbin for lircd and lircmd, and /usr/local/bin
>for irrecord, irw, etc
>
>I had to reinstall from cvs source and edit the /etc/init.d/lircd to
>point to the new location of lircd and lircmd (/usr/local/sbin/) both
>in the top of the document and in the start/stop/restart scripts. One
>you restart with /etc/init.d/lircd restart, you just have to also start
>irxevent as mythtv user and thinhs should be fine (as long as you have
>the .lircdrc and lircd.conf in place)
>
>good luck
>anders
>
>On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 12:51 PM, Shay - MythTV wrote:
>
>>
>>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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