Re: LIRC, Hauppage PVR-350, Debian == DEAD
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:17:49PM +0100, Didde Brockman wrote:
> I just finished building my new HTPC solution - yeay! The one and only
> remaining problem is getting LIRC to responding to the Hauppage
> PVR-350's boxed remote control.
I have MythTV working on Debian unstable perfectly. Maybe I can help.
My wife and I "love" MythTV! We use the PVR-350 as well.
> "lircd" starts up ok and "/dev/lirc0" (not "/dev/lirc" oddly) exists
> and seems to have the correct permissions etc, but when I run "irw" to
> debug it just sits there no matter how many buttons I push on the
> remote. Yes, I have checked to see that the remote is functional and it
> is (video cameras sure are a good thing sometimes) and
> /var/log/messages does show that the remote "on" the card is registered
> when running "modprobe lirc_i2c"... The basics seem good so I'm
> suspecting I may have **cked up on the basics since I'm far from an
> expert on modules and such ;-/
I am not an expert either. Here are some things I have:
debian2:~# ps aux |grep lirc
root 1469 0.0 0.0 1544 476 ? Ss Jan04 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/lircd
root 1491 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jan04 0:00 [lirc_dev]
debian2:~# ls -al /dev/lir*
crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 Oct 30 14:43 /dev/lirc
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 4 23:04 /dev/lircd
prw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Oct 30 14:43 /dev/lircm
> I have added "lirc_i2c" to "/etc/modules" and ivtv's "modconf" file
> looks like this (note the alias for lirc_i2c):
>
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> options ivtv debug=1
> options tuner type=29
> options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
> add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c
>
> /etc/modules.conf" contains the exact same thing after running
> "update-modules". I also tried rebooting to no avail.
Here is my /etc/modules.conf:
### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv debug=1
options tuner type=39
options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=1
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
post-install ivtv /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0x3000 \
-f width=720,height=480 -p 4
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c
> Is anybody running LIRC along with their PVR-350? I would appreciate
> any help or hints on this as I am badly lost.
>
> (FYI: it's a manually installed "lirc-0.7.0" running on sarge)
I am using lirc-0.7.0pre2 and I recall having problems starting the daemon
the right way so I added the following to /etc/init.d/local :
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/sbin/lircd
Also, if you got frustrated like me and did "apt-get install lirc lirc-everthing
lirc-anything etc..." make sure the package is NOT starting at bootup.
I use rcconf to easily manage services for startup. You most likely did not
do this, but just making sure.
This page was a good resource for me (you have seen this page no?):
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough
Send more questions and I will try to help.
Andy
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