[mythtv-users] Almost got my LIRC problem

Shay - MythTV mythtv at highstyleweb.com
Sat Sep 20 09:27:30 EDT 2003


At 01:41 AM 9/20/2003, you wrote:
>On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 14:40 US/Pacific, and wrote:
>
>>Don't you have to also to /sbin/chkconfig lircd on to have it 
>>automatically start?
>
>Yes, definitely do that if you didn't already.

I did, but then at startup I have problems like before.


>>On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 01:55 PM, Shay - MythTV wrote:
>>
>>>I really hope you can help me out.  This might even be a bug you can put 
>>>in your install doc?  Anyways, it looks like the problem is the initial 
>>>loading of things, like we talked about at one time.  I found that if I 
>>>reboot and do this, all works:
>>>
>>># rm -rf /dev/lircd
>>># /sbin/depmod -a
>>># /sbin/modprobe ivtv
>>># /sbin/modprobe lirc_dev
>>># /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
>>># /sbin/service lircd start
>>>exit
>>>$ /usr/bin/irw
>
>So I'm confused now. Do you have any lirc source-based install, or only 
>rpm at this point?

no source installed, just rpm and whatever comes with mythtv-suite which I 
need to remove.


>>>I haven't actually tested the remote, I'm at work.. ;)   But it doesn't 
>>>come right back to the prompt which makes me thing it might actually be 
>>>working.
>
>Sounds like it is working...

Yup, she works.. just can't get it to work at startup

>>>Any idea what I could do to get it to work at reboot?
>
>The /sbin/chkconfig lircd on SHOULD do the trick... If you'd already done 
>that, I dunno. You definitely shouldn't be having to remove /dev/lircd. 
>Oh, and the correct device file is actually /dev/lirc...
>
>>>Thanks a bunch for all the help and the great website!
>
>What web site? I have but a page on Mark Cooper's site... :)

Great webpage?  :)


>>>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
>
>Everything looks fine here...
>



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