So my mainboard died. I installed a new one and I did an auto upgrade from CD. Now lirc doesn't work once

again.

I put the script from kebe in LinHES issue 328 in /etc/runit

and rebooted.

Everything seems ok, except my remote does nothing, but irw returns nothing, irsend

doesn't give any error either.

gives;

gives;

gives;

gives;

gives;

Please help! How can I test the serial port hardware further?

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Douw Steyn
LinHES 6.03
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ , PVR-150, GeForce 8100, 2GB RAM,
600GB in Storage Groups

Many motherboards have serial headers that aren't actually brought out to ports. You can check in your BIOS and see if perhaps multiple ports are listed and go from there.

It could be that that "com1" / "ttys1" is actually just a header port and you are connected to the 2nd port. unlikely but possible.

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ABIT NF-M2 nView | Athlon 64 X2 3800+ | 2GB DDR2 800 | HDHomerun | GeForce 6150 (onboard) | WD 640 GB SATA HD | DVD-RW (sata) | StreamZap IR receiver with Logitech Harmony remote

Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)

For my serial IR receiver I had to add to my startup scripts to disable the serial port, load the lirc_serial module and set the permissions correctly. Not running LinHES currently, but it looks like Service Menu->linHES Configuration->Remotes should handle this for you: http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.p ... =setserial

Martian: The mobo only has the header, no com port on the back panel. The header is brought out with a ribbon to a DB9 on a bracket. The BIOS only list the one port with address and IRQ selectable. The BIOS corresponds with what is shown in my previous post.

Slowtolearn: Isn't the script supposed to take care of that?

Thanks for the replies guys.

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Douw Steyn
LinHES 6.03
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ , PVR-150, GeForce 8100, 2GB RAM,
600GB in Storage Groups

I restored the scipts to standard as for R6.03. The modules stil load and devices are listed correctly. But still no joy.

Just check levels on the port, looks like what ever killed the mobo might have fried the lirc hardware too.

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Douw Steyn
LinHES 6.03
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ , PVR-150, GeForce 8100, 2GB RAM,
600GB in Storage Groups

No, got excited to quick, she works on winlirc. The search continues.

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Douw Steyn
LinHES 6.03
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ , PVR-150, GeForce 8100, 2GB RAM,
600GB in Storage Groups

I have virtually no knowledge of the workings of lirc, but I believe I just made the modifications in the following two posts on the bugs page and mine worked:

http://linhes.org/bugs/issues/328#note-1
http://linhes.org/bugs/issues/328#note-9

I have a USB receiver (streamzap) and a homebrew serial blaster.

I'm giving up, I don't have the time anymore to battle this. I bought a commercial hardware media player and a set top box from my satellite service provider with PVR built in.

Bye, bye mythtv, it's been fun but my patience are wearing thinner and thinner the older I get.

Maybe it's just because I have the money now to afford the alternatives?

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Douw Steyn
LinHES 6.03
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ , PVR-150, GeForce 8100, 2GB RAM,
600GB in Storage Groups

While I understand the frustration a slightly less extreme approach would have been to purchase a Streamzap remote:

http://www.streamzap.com/consumer/pc_remote/index.php

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ABIT NF-M2 nView | Athlon 64 X2 3800+ | 2GB DDR2 800 | HDHomerun | GeForce 6150 (onboard) | WD 640 GB SATA HD | DVD-RW (sata) | StreamZap IR receiver with Logitech Harmony remote

Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)

Thanks Martian.

It's not really the frustration factor that decided me. I simply don't have the tinker time anymore to play with a homemade media centre setup. I just love frustrating the hell out of myself and figuring something out eventually.

The streamzap is rather dear over here in ZA, so the media player I bought was just a bit better option for me at basically the same price. Also, the new settop box is the bottom of the range one that enables the few HD channels we have over here, so that was also a considiration.

I will keep my LinHES hardware functional anyway, and keep following it's progression as time permits.

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Douw Steyn
LinHES 6.03
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ , PVR-150, GeForce 8100, 2GB RAM,
600GB in Storage Groups