LIRC "fun"

halenger

Been trying to get this working for days to no avail. Hoping someone will have a clue what's wrong. Don't even know if it's related to LIRC drivers or what but I'm just confused and sick of it. (LIRC = Linux Infrared Remote Control - http://www.lirc.org)

(I have IVTV working and can get both TV and S-Video working sucessfully (with audio also). This is just the last bit I need to "finish" the puzzle so to speak.)

Long post (was an e-mail):

I'm doing something wrong somewhere and I'm really not at all sure what.
I've been tinkering with kernels (2.4.25 and 2.6.10) and getting
nowhere. Everything below is from 2.4.25 (not stock). My remote is the
grey and black one (in case you don't know that can be relevant as there's 3 colour variations for different model remotes) with the Hauppauge PVR-350.

lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
lirc_i2c 4832 0 (autoclean) (unused)
lirc_dev 8820 0 (autoclean) [lirc_i2c]
msp3400 17888 0 (unused)
tuner 10664 0 (unused)
i2c-algo-bit 7592 0
i2c-core 13604 0 [lirc_i2c msp3400 tuner i2c-algo-bit]

I'm using the latest CVS snapshot (lircd 0.7.1pre1) though I had tried
0.6.6 from apt and 0.7.0. With 0.7.0 I was getting errors with make
install so I left it for something newer. No errors during make or make
install with 0.7.1pre1.

I start lircd with simply "lircd". /var/log/lircd shows:
Feb 3 02:14:41 phoenix lircd 0.7.1pre1: lircd(hauppauge) ready

Then I try irw or irrecord (as root). I get this from irw:

Feb 3 02:14:44 phoenix lircd 0.7.1pre1: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Feb 3 02:14:44 phoenix lircd 0.7.1pre1: could not open /dev/lirc
Feb 3 02:14:44 phoenix lircd 0.7.1pre1: default_init(): No such device
Feb 3 02:14:44 phoenix lircd 0.7.1pre1: caught signal

and this from irrecord:
irrecord: could not open /dev/lirc
irrecord: default_init(): No such device
irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? --> close it, check
permissions)

ps aux|grep lircd (run after irrecord erroring out) shows:
root 5371 0.0 0.1 1544 536 ? Ss 02:14 0:00 lircd

ls -al /dev/lirc*
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 61, 0 2005-02-02 22:51 /dev/lirc
srw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-02-03 02:14 /dev/lircd
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-02-02 22:51 /dev/lircm

Clearly I've left out some step somewhere. I've looked at
lirc-modules-source but I don't know if a) I need it and b) what
settings to give it. As it's the PVR-350 I don't use serial as it's
connected directly to the card.

I just can't see where I'm going wrong. I've been looking at websites
all over the place saying use this lircd.conf and this lircdm.conf and a
few other little things then make, make install and it works. Well it
doesn't for me unfortunately.

If you've read this far you must be a gluten for punishment. Thanks.



lspci in case it's relevant:
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (32000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

halenger

Well after much panic when TV card stopped working I went and edited kernel config slightly. Recompiled. Rebooted. Recompiled IVTV and the LIRC and it all worked.

Carry on then. Nevermind me.