I have been having a problem with a new PVR-150 remote control and R5D1. IVTV reports a tuner type of 4 on the card when autoconfiguring during boot, which results in the tuner not being detected. A quick edit of modprobe.conf to define the tuner as 50 solved the problem. I now have good quality TV signal. However, the remote control seems to work intermittently. More specifically, the remote control will work for the first couple of reboots after initial install and then the next time I reboot the system, the remote does not work, and will not work for each subsequent boot. "ps -a" shows that the "lircd" process is initially running, but disappears from the list within a minute or less. Trying to manually start the lircd process results in lircd showing up as a process for about a minute, and then disappearing from the process list. As far as I can tell, when the remote is working, there is another process running called "lircd_dev". When the remote is not working, lircd_dev does not show up in the list.

I have tried running lircd in non-daemon mode and found that when I run "irw", lircd shuts down saying something about no port available (I don't have the specific lircd output right now, but will post later if required). IVTV detects that the tuner card does have infrared remote capabilites.

Input would greatly be appreciated since I have had to go back to using a poor quality hauppauge wintv go-plus tuner card with remote that works.

Joe

- Why not put both cards in the machine. The remote and capture functions are quite seperate. You can use the working remote and the better quality capture card.

- Try shutting the machine down cold (off at the power supply) and leaving it sit for a minute before rebooting. This forces the firmware to get reloaded.

These aren't real solutions but they're the best workaround we've got at the moment.

I have tried the power cycling tip you suggested, unfortumately with no luck. It seems to be more of an initially working, but now it is broken type of problem. Unfortunately I have run out of PCI slots on my microATX Motherboard (3 pci slots). One slot is for a PVR-150 MCE version (no remote), One slot is for a wireless NIC, and the last slot was supposted to be for the PVR-150 (non-mce) with remote. Too bad because I've heard that this card is one of the better tuner cards for MythTV and I'd really like to use both tuner cards... I've also tried different PCI slots.

My other option is to pick up a serial/USB IR receiver.. Any product recommendations for compatibility and configuration with LIRC and Knoppmyth? Building my own seems like it might be a good homebrew project..