[mythtv-users] LIRC and ALSA Drivers not loading

[Michael T. Dean]

skd5aner wrote:

> Anyway, the problem I’ve been having is that I can’t seem to get the 
> alsa and lirc modules to load after a reboot.
>
Generally, this is done inside a start script (i.e. a script under 
/etc/rc.d/init.d or /etc/init.d or whatever Debian uses). For example, 
the alsa-driver package contains a script called alsasound in the utils 
directory that loads the approprate sound drivers. If you compiled from 
source, you'll need to manually "install" this script (may mean 
modifying the script for your startup sequence) and the appropriate 
symlinks for each runlevel. If you installed a package, it should have 
installed the startup script (but you may still have to activate it for 
the appropriate runlevels). If you can't find anything like it in your 
init.d directory, you might want to try re-installing the package to see 
if that helps. For LIRC, the same applies, but the name of the script is 
lirc.debian and it's in the contrib directory.

> I’m running Debian testing on an nForce2 board and have entered the 
> information into modutils and done an update-modules. The information 
> is in the /etc/modules.conf file just like it should be. I can do a 
> modprobe and start the modules manually, but I can’t get it done 
> automatically. I originally had this problem for the nvidia drivers 
> but somehow they magically went away.
>
Probably the nVidia installer set things up for you.

> Also, another “problem” with lirc is that everytime I want to load the 
> driver, I have to run a “setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none” first.
>
That's because you have the serial driver compiled into the kernel. If 
you recompile the kernel (or get a new one however you got your current 
one) with the serial driver compiled as a module, then simply load the 
lirc_serial module instead of the serial module, you won't have to "turn 
off" the kernel's serial driver.

HTH. Mike