Re: LIRC serial help

[MacNean T. <da...@gm...>]

On 11/10/05, Michael Mauch <mic...@gm...> wrote:
>
> MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
>
> > I just bought one of those packard bell remote cheap off ebay. I'm
> having a
> > problem getting it to work. Here is the output if i run irw:
> >
> > root@mythtvbox2:~# lircd --nodaemon
> > lircd 0.7.2: lircd(serial) ready
> > lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> > lircd 0.7.2: could not get hardware features
> > lircd 0.7.2: this device driver does not support the new LIRC interface
> > lircd 0.7.2: major number of /dev/lirc is 4
> > lircd 0.7.2: LIRC major number is 61
> > lircd 0.7.2: check if /dev/lirc is a LIRC device
> > lircd 0.7.2: caught signal
> > Terminated
> >
> > (I have also install lirc with the packard bell option so the second
> line
> > has that instead of (serial) but both do the same thing)
> > I do have ln /dev/ttyS0 /dev/lirc
>
> Why? That's wrong. /dev/lirc/0 or /dev/lirc0 should be the lirc output
> device:
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 9. Nov 10:19 /dev/lirc/0
>
> It should be created automatically by the lirc_dev kernel module, which
> is loaded automatically if you modprobe lirc_serial.


You're right it was wrong i figured it out yesterday. See i was using
KnoppMyth. This is for my frontend. I have pvr-250's in my backend so i kne=
w
how to get lirc running with that no problem. I had installed the frontend
before receiving the serial receiver off ebay. When i plugged it in and
recompiled lirc and such, it didn't overwrite the /dev/lirc that was alread=
y
there. So no matter how much i ran setserial and modprobe lirc_serial and
make install of lirc, it wouldn't work. And when i did delete /dev/lirc i
kept linking it myself to /dev/ttyS0, which has a major number of 4, not 61=
.
So after a lot of searching, i read the mythtv instructions for lirc, and i=
t
said make install should create /dev/lirc automatically for you. So i
deleted all /dev/lirc* reran make install and it worked.

Be sure to use
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
>
> (or /dev/ttyS1 if that's your serial port for lirc) before you load the
> lirc_serial module.
>
> The lirc device type, port and IRQ are set with parameters of
> lirc_serial, e.g.
>
> modprobe lirc_serial type=3D1 io=3D0x2f8 irq=3D3
>
> See "modinfo lirc_serial" for more options (especially the type).
>
> > I also have linked S1 to lirc0 and ran lircd with the device option to
> > lirc0.
>
> That's also wrong.
>
> > Can anyone help?
>
> Perhaps somebody could give specific help for your distribution if you
> would write which distribution you are using.
>
> Regards...
> Michael
>
>
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--
Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell