I've had a working lirc config for over a year. I have an RCA 6-in-1 remote and a homemade receiver. I have a custom lircd.config that was created via irrecord. I also have a custom keymap setup in mythweb with matching .mythtv/lircrd

everything was working perfectly. I upgraded to the latest R5A release, installed lirc 0.7.1 and everything was still working perfectly.....but now nothing.

I have 'touched' many things since the upgrade and since the remote was working so I dont know what I broke. I did play with mplayer (mythvideo) it was not recieving the IR signals. I played with many things included window manager focus.

anything amiss below? any WM focus concerns?

mode2 shows lots of output and irrecord seem happy.

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can someone explain to me lirc_serial and lirc_i2c.

within my dmesg I see this before ivtv loads:


then later I see


The "Hauppauge IR" remote part bothers me. is lirc_i2c the Hauppauge module? do I need it if Im using a serial IR receiver. is this a Red herring? Are people truely not wearing enough hats?

grasping at straws I have change /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv from:

to

no joy

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Ok, continueing the conversation with myself (fell free to join in) seems that mode2 and irrecord both capture IR signals. iwr doesnt report anything. I was convinced that the i2c stuff was cauisng my pain. I did a then a configure, make and make install of lirc 0.7.1. still no joy!

I'm stuck and I need some help. since lirc has always 'just worked' I dont fully understand how all of the pieces work.

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I've been there. This will answer some (but not all) of your lirc questions.

http://www.lirc.org/html/install.html#installing

shplad

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For what it's worth, I had the exact same problem, researched for 4 days on several sites, tried reloading 8 times each with slightly different configurations all to no avail. The core lirc worked (irrecord did see the remote) but I could never get lircd to recognize the system... I also had an issue with mplayer (would not pass ac3 anymore to an external processor) even though I down-reved to mplayer-586 - same as my original R5A12.

Finally I just went back to R5A12. I did discover that there seems to be a known issue with the 2.6.11 kernel and lirc 1.7.x (do a search on the error in your syslog (BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: modprobe). There seems to be a lot of people with serial IR receivers that are having problems getting them to work with this kernel.

The following is from my last syslog before I went back to A12...

lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: modprobe/2011
caller is init_port+0xb1/0x290 [lirc_serial]
[smp_processor_id+140/160] smp_processor_id+0x8c/0xa0
[pg0+549513745/1067987968] init_port+0xb1/0x290 [lirc_serial]
[pg0+549516122/1067987968] init_module+0x3a/0xa0 [lirc_serial]
[sys_init_module+370/560] sys_init_module+0x172/0x230
[syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
lirc_serial: auto-detected active low receiver
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0

Thanx, that is my problem. did you downgrade lirc ot are there other fixes

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I did try a downgrade of lirc but didn't help. I tried both 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 (as well as the flavor delivered in the build). I even found a comment somewhere that implied a problem because of mplayer - so I removed that - no good.

I am convinced it is related to a kernel problem... With the number of people having this problem, I am sure there will be a solution soon.

Right now I am running R5A12 with lirc 1.7.1, mplayer-586, and Alsa 1.0.8. It runs almost flawlessly (including AC3 passthru from mplayer without changes to my core configuration).

thanks for the posts, where did yo see others having issues, I dug though the lirc forums, not much there?

where would /I watch of a solution? do you think the solution is a kernal patch otr a lirc patch?

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An error in my last post - I am running LIRC 1.7.0 with R12 - LIRC 1.7.1 has a bug in it - can't get it to work with a serial receiver. Sorry

What release are you running?

are tou sure those versions correct? im have 0.7.1



maybe ill try 0.7.0

cecil, which version do you use on the distro?

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tried 0.7.0...as nbdwt73 stated....no joy!

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should I be surprized that I'm getting SMP errors on a single cpu box? did I read somewhere that the kernel is compiled w/ smp support. is that causing my pain?

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an smp kernel on a single processor box will spit out one or two error messages on boot saying it only found one cpu, but other than that it should not cause any errors.

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Well, no help on the lirc lists, not much help of any kind over there...most posts remain without a single response. We knoppmythers are pertty lucky we have this active forum.

my question is...

what version do I need to rollback to to have a functioning remote via lirc_serial. I moved from R4V5 with a working remote to R5A16 badness.

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Sorry for the delay khrusher - I took a few days off - no access (no TV, cable, email, Myth, etc...). I found a post somewhere about a problem with a serial IR Blaster that suggested something to try (in my office and don't have access to my box so I can't give you the specifics now). I am going to rebuild my test machine this week and try it.

They, too, were having problems with 1.7.1 and down reved to an older LIRC release. They also tried a different sequence of events (and the moon was full and stood on one foot while chanting..). I will try it this week and report back.

As posted earlier, I can attest to R5A12 working well and somewhat solid. Another requirement I have is mplayer passing AC3 thru spdif. I was never able to get that working with R5A16 either (one quirk is that I am using a SB 5.1 - that may be part of the problem with R5A16 since ALSA is somewhat particular with that card.).