Re: LIRC 0.8.7 does not seem to work with Linux mythtv-desktop 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:32:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Douglas P. <Dou...@pe...>]

  Ah!

Thanks for the pointers.

Cheers
Douglas.

On 25/09/2010 4:07 p.m., Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Douglas Pearless
> <Dou...@pe...>  wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>> I have just updated via CVS to 0.8.7 and I find that in "dmesg" I am
>> getting the following lirc errors:
>>
>> ....
>> [    9.733083] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
>> [    9.741474] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
>> [    9.758954] IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
>> [    9.773528] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
>> [    9.773632] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
>> [    9.773634] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>> [    9.790056] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
>> [    9.790191] input: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver
>> (0471:0815) as /devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input3
>> [    9.790244] rc0: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver
>> (0471:0815) as /devices/virtual/rc/rc0
>> [    9.790266] mceusb 4-1:1.0: Registered Philips eHome Infrared
>> Transceiver on usb4:2
>> [    9.790286] usbcore: registered new interface driver mceusb
>> [    9.790539] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
>> [    9.819602] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
>> [    9.821195] lirc_mceusb: Windows Media Center Edition USB IR
>> Transceiver driver for LIRC 1.90
>> [    9.821197] lirc_mceusb: Daniel Melander<li...@ra...>, Martin
>> Blatter<mar...@ya...>, Dan Conti<dc...@ac...>
> ...
>> Any ideas?
> Don't install lirc kernel modules from the lirc distribution for
> Ubuntu 10.10 or Fedora 14 2.6.35 kernels. Or any other distribution
> with a 2.6.36 kernel. Your kernel already provides an lirc_dev, as
> well as IR device drivers. What you're seeing it the result of having
> both lirc_mceusb and the new mceusb driver load at the same time, each
> with its own lirc_dev variant. Remove the .ko files you built, use the
> kernel-provided ones. You'll also need to use the Ubuntu-provided lirc
> packages, which are designed to work with the slightly modified ioctl
> interface in the lirc bits merged upstream.
>
> /me vows to get lirc 0.9.0 pre1 snap together this weekend...
>