Re: ioctl errors with lirc

[John H <ari...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:41 PM, John H <ari...@gm...> wrote:
>> I've been using lirc 0.8.4a since I've been having issues with the
>> latest version of lirc.
>>
>> I'm having the same issues in the following thread.
>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/wrong-major-number-problem-td28133597.html
>>
>> I noticed Jarod has a patch for lirc but this is for Fedora and I use Ubuntu.
>>
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/lirc/0.8.6/3.fc13/src/
>>
>> I went ahead and downloaded the source and open it with ark. There was
>> a patch for the ioctl problem that I applied. The problem is when I
>> compiled I got undeclared errors for uint64_t.
>>
>> Anyone have a fix for Ubuntu 10.04?
>
> No, and those ioctl changes have been reverted in Fedora. I dunno
> what's going on in your situation, there shouldn't be any ioctl type
> mismatch, unless someone pulled an old version of the Fedora kernel
> lirc patch into the Ubuntu bits.
>
>
> --
Thanks for the help. I just downloaded the tar file from lirc web site
and compiled. I received the ioctl errors so I found your patch and
compiled it hoping it would fix my issue. It didn't

I have two computers with one being my Mythbuntu box running 64bit
10.04 and my home PC running 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04. I have a homebrew
USB receiver and a regular blaster. Knowing that my homebrew can be
tricky I test upgrades on my home PC and if it works I upgrade MB to
the latest version. Lirc worked on my 32 bit system with my homebrew
but not on my 64 bit. I then downloaded previous revs or lirc and
compiled until I found one that worked which was 8.4a.

I could run the Ubuntu lirc package but that's what I first started
running until I upgraded to a new version of lirc broke my setup but
this was on 9.10.