[H-GEN] LIRC Problem

[Clinton Roy]

Hi James,

(posting because our mythtv guru hasn't stepped up to the plate, not
mentioning any names)

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 02:41:01 +1000, James Mills
<prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:

> I am trying to get my Remote Control (that came with my TV card) to
> work.
I take it that means the remote sensor actually plugs into a port in
the tv card itself? If so, then the rest of my post may be more
helpful. It's unfortunate, but the documentation for lirc is
depressingly segmented across many mailing list archives.

> I have installed the following packages:
> daisy:~# dpkg -l | grep lirc -i
> ii  liblircclient0 0.6.6-7        LIRC client library
> ii  lirc           0.6.6-7        Linux Infra-red Remote Control support
Right, I think this is your first problem. The latest stable release
of lirc is very old and doesn't support a lot of hardware, you'll
almost certainly have to get a prerelease and compile from source.
Fortunately it's also quite likely that you'll just have to compile
the daemon, and not a kernel module.

It used to be the case that lirc had to handle specific hardware, now
days it's more likely that the tv card module will handle the hardware
side of the remote and pass events the kernel, all lirc has to do is
to convert those kernel events to lirc events.

> Starting lirc daemon:.
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/alsa/snd-vxp440.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o
I see very similar symbol problems on my debian box, they're all for
sound modules and if your sound card is working, you won't be using
any of these modules anyway :)


> * The TV Card works fine
> * I can watch TV just fine
> * I can listen to the radio just fine
This information is of great help, it cuts out a lot of other problems :)

So, assuming your tv card handles remote control events in a similar
way to my card, this guide I wrote about my experiences may be
helpful:

http://staff.dstc.edu.au/croy/mythtv/

let us know how you go :)

cheers,
-- 
Clinton Roy
www.humbug.org.au  - Brisbane Unix Group
staff.dstc.edu.au/croy - Blog