[mythtv-users] lircd quit working

Lord Darkhelmet lord_darkhelmet at accesscomm.ca
Sun Nov 12 19:58:55 UTC 2006


I had lircd working just fine under fedora 5 using a PVR-150 card and 
remote.  Not sure what happened but the remote quit working.  After 
restarting the lircd I tried irw to see if it was receiving.  I just 
dropped me to a command prompt.  checking the /var/log/messages file I 
find this:

Nov 12 13:29:41 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[8408]: caught signal
Nov 12 13:29:47 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: lircd(userspace) ready
Nov 12 13:29:50 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: accepted new client on 
/dev/lircd
Nov 12 13:29:50 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: accepted new client on 
/dev/lircd
Nov 12 13:30:15 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: removed client
Nov 12 13:34:25 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: accepted new client on 
/dev/lircd
Nov 12 13:34:47 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: removed client
Nov 12 13:34:58 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: accepted new client on 
/dev/lircd
Nov 12 13:35:13 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: removed client
Nov 12 13:41:37 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25102]: caught signal
Nov 12 13:41:41 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25213]: lircd(userspace) ready
Nov 12 13:41:43 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25213]: accepted new client on 
/dev/lircd
Nov 12 13:41:43 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25213]: could not get file 
information for /dev/lirc
Nov 12 13:41:43 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25213]: default_init(): No such 
file or directory
Nov 12 13:41:43 mythbox lircd-0.8.1-CVS[25213]: caught signal


In my /dev I have a device called lircd not lirc.   I tried creating a 
symlink from lirc to lircd.  This allowed irw to run with out crashing 
lircd but it still didn't echo any codes received from the remote.   I 
re-installed ivtv and lirc through yum,  same results.   Then tried 
updating the kernel, ivtv and lirc kernel modules,  same results.   Any 
idea what happened and how to fix?   Using a digital camera I can see 
the remote transmitting but I have no idea how to test the IR receiver.


My modprobe.conf :

alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; 
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install 
lirc_i2c

Thanks.
Dean.


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