[mythtv-users] lirc issues after vacation

Davey McWatters daveyiv at adelphia.net
Fri Jan 5 06:07:28 UTC 2007


Davey McWatters wrote:
> devsk wrote:
>   
>>> The only thing I can think of that would have broken it was
>>> some updates I installed today
>>>       
>> can you list those updates? More people can eyeball them and may be 
>> know if those affect the lirc somehow.
>>
>> what are you using as your IR device?
>>
>> -devsk
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Davey McWatters <daveyiv at adelphia.net>
>> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:39:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] lirc issues after vacation
>>
>> devsk wrote:
>>     
>>> lircd exits if one connection fails due to failed ioctls on the device
>>> (/var/log/messages will have a message to this effect). I went thru
>>> this recently where lircd would start fine but would disappear after I
>>> invoked 'irw', which will return with 'connection refused'. The reason
>>> in my case was that the in-kernel driver (pvrusb2) didn't have the
>>> support for lirc for the chip 24xx. I downloaded the tar and built the
>>> driver myself, and it all started working.
>>>
>>> so, check to see if your driver for the IR device is working properly
>>> and /dev/lirc/0 is getting created. See if you are using in-kernel
>>> version now whereas you used the self-built latest module earlier.
>>>
>>> other possibility (in case you didn't upgrade kernel, change any
>>> modules, or upgrade lirc) could be udev upgrade messed up something
>>> and is no longer creating /dev/lirc/0.
>>>
>>> -devsk
>>>
>>>       
>> How can I check to see if my driver for the IR device is working
>> properly? If I try to go into /dev/lirc/ it says not a directory. How do
>> I know if I am using the in-kernel version vs a compiled version? I
>> downloaded the source for lirc and did the make install procedure again
>> to no avail. The only thing I can think of that would have broken it was
>> some updates I installed today, but I unchecked off of the ones dealing
>> with kernel headers and stuff to try to avoid this issue...
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> I'm using Ubuntu Edgy Eft and I used the update manager to install them. 
> Is there a way that I can see the history of what updates were 
> installed? I can't find it. Also I am using a Hauppauge PVR150 IR
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After watching what it is doing I tried running

sudo lircd -n in one terminal
then irw in the next

I came up with

mythtv at spork:~$ sudo lircd -n
Password:
lircd: lircd(hauppauge) ready
lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd: could not open /dev/lirc
lircd: default_init(): No such device
lircd: caught signal
Terminated



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