[mythtv-users] HDPVR setup irsend error

[John Welch]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51 PM, steve <networks1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>Never mind, looked at earlier mail, which says x86_64 Fedora 12.
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>>Something is VERY wrong if you have no /lib/firmware, it should always
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>>be there on a Fedora install.
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> Right FC12 x86_64, whatever version was current as of a couple of weeks
> ago.  And sorry, there *is* a /lib/firmware but there is nothing in it.  So
> /etc/sysconfig/lirc is the right location for those “chosen ir transmitter”
> commands?
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>>For the record, in Fedora 12, its /etc/lirc/lircd.conf we look for,
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>>not /etc/lircd.conf. (Per default path change upstream).
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> Sorry again.  It’s indeed /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
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> The lirc version is 0.8.6-1.fc12
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> So I’m at a loss as to what to do next.  I guess I can go back to zero and
> install everything all over again.  It might be preferable to kill myself,
> though.  Are there any other diagnostics I can do?  Or maybe I should post
> something to the lirc list.
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A couple of suggestions / things to look at:

1) Add a line to your /etc/rc.local file to automatically load the
lirc_zilog module at startup (ie /sbin/modprobe lirc_zilog).  There
might be other / better places to do this, but all I can tell you is
it "works for me".

2) How did you create / save your lircd.conf file?  Is is possible
that you have some extraneous characters in there?  I know this could
happen, for example, if you saved the file on a Windows box and then
copied it over.

John