[mythtv-users] Help Needed - lircd crashes with mceusb

Dan Conti dconti at acm.wwu.edu
Fri Jul 9 13:59:42 EDT 2004


Hello,

The following line:

add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_mceusb

Causes problems for the MCE driver. I dont have a card with ivtv support,
but i believe the problem is something related to shared IRQs between ivtv
and USB not being handled properly. This is of course speculation.

I recommend removing that line from your modules.conf. There is no
dependency between ivtv and mceusb (or, at least, there shouldn't be).
People use the 'add above' line for lirc_i2c when using a hauppauge remote,
but it does not generalize to other remotes.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Mitko Haralanov
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:35 PM
> To: MythTV Users
> Cc: Lirc Mailing List
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Help Needed - lircd crashes with mceusb
>
>
> 	Hi, tonight I attempted to upgrade my mythtv box to the
> latest nvidia
> drivers. That meant that I had to upgrade to kernel-2.4.22-1.2197. That
> went all fine, however, ever since I can't get lircd to work.
>
> Every time I try to access /dev/lirc, I get:
>
> Jul  7 21:20:09 mythtv lircd 0.7.0pre4[2061]: accepted new client
> on /dev/lircd
> Jul  7 21:20:09 mythtv lircd 0.7.0pre4[2061]: could not open /dev/lirc
> Jul  7 21:20:09 mythtv lircd 0.7.0pre4[2061]: default_init(): No
> such device
> Jul  7 21:20:09 mythtv lircd 0.7.0pre4[2061]: caught signal
>
> I found one thread that suggests that I should be using lirc-0.70pre4.
> However, you can see from the message above that that is what I am
> using.
>
> I have tried playing with my modules.conf. Originally (when it worked
> with the old kernel), it was as follows:
>
> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> ...
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c
>
> That did not work with the new kernel/driver. I also tried:
>
> alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb
> ...
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_mceusb
>
> and that did not work either. When the lirc_mceusb module loads, I get
> the following:
>
> Jul  7 21:13:44 mythtv lircd 0.7.0pre4[2061]: lircd(any) ready
> Jul  7 21:13:44 mythtv lircd: lircd startup succeeded
> Jul  7 21:15:20 mythtv kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver ir_transceiver
> Jul  7 21:15:51 mythtv kernel: usb.c: registered new driver ir_transceiver
> Jul  7 21:15:51 mythtv kernel: lirc_mceusb.c: USB Microsoft IR
> Transceiver Driver v0.2
>
> I have run out of idea!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanx
>
>
>
> --
> Mitko Haralanov
> voidtrance at comcast dot net
> http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net
> ==========================================
> VMS is like a nightmare about RXS-11M.
>



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