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

[and]

Sorry about the confusion

look in /usr/local/sbin for lircd

The scrips are segments or parts of the /etc/init.d/lircd script
I had to give the correct path to lircd in each of these script parts

rgds
anders

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Shay - MythTV wrote:

>
> 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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