lirc and winfast 2000 xp deluxe tv card

[jse86]

Hi I am currently in the process of installing my tv tuner. I got bttv working with tvtime. But now I am working on the remote. I downgraded kernel to 2.6.5-gentoo in order to use the lirc patch. I have successfully loaded my remotes module lirc_gpio. But now, I need to emerge lirc and have it configure the driver for lirc_gpio. (NOTE: when you just type emerge lirc, it installes the serial driver by default.) How can I change that and is this going to work with this kernel?

Any other tips on lirc greatly aprreciated.

[asiobob]

for some unfortuante reason the portage LIRC never worked for me with the same remote as yours. I cannot remember the exact syntax but I did emerge it with the gpio driver...

Have no fear, I installed the cvs version and it works perfectly.
I'll give you some instructions on how to do it. Some points to note.

you NO LONGER need to patch the kernel! So upgrade your kernel if you please...the cvs version of lirc builds the modules for you and the software. Nice and easy

1. emerge cvs (if you haven't got it)
2. YOU MUST DO THIS STEP, just enter it in a terminal. We want to use these versions of autoconf and automake as other versions may fail. Gentoo has multiple versions some times so this his how we select it

[jse86]

thank you so very much! it worked...but now I need to work with the permissions involved.

I read on the site about chmod 666 /dev/lircd...and I did it, but I still get the following:

[asiobob]

lircd must be started as root.
I have edited:

/etc/conf.d/local.start
and have this in there

[jse86]

you are a good man. thank you so much for the help.

but now I have just one more question: (wait I lied, make that two)

1) How can I trick portage into thinking that the lirc ebuild is installed? bc everytime I go to install something with lirc support, lirc is a dep and I can do --nodep but thats annoying. Any thoughts?

2) Second, I assume you own the same tv card as I do. Can I use PIP in linux? What about the sound via bttv (w/o the external cable)?

thanks!

While I am thinking about it...what tv apps do you use?

I love TVTime, but I need something to record and mythtv is a little overkill for me.

(wow that was longer than I thought it would be)

[asiobob]

1. inject the version into portage including category

[jse86]

awesome. I will do that.

thank you again

[Zefiro]

(little encounter of Neo and Mr. Smith? ;)

I nearly got this far. I managed to find out automake failed to use the correct version and that I'd have to use WANT_AUTOMAKE. I failed at using 'export' so it didn't work.

Now I've got a strange error message: "sleeping function called from invaild context at mm/slav.c" in syslog, after first client connects (I'm actually using lirc to control my windows boy, with girder and winamp :) but it seems to work. Even after reboot, which is a good sign.

From my 2.6.5-times, unchanged, is the installed lirc ebuild (why shouldn't it be there, I think I don't unmerge it) and my added line

[asiobob]

the sleeping function thingo, in the kernel, have you got SPINLOCK something enabled? its in kernel hacking I think. When I had this enabled I got shit loads of spam in my sys log from my nvidia driver perhaps this is related? when I meant shit loads I do mena it, all 34gb of syslog file over 1 month

[Zefiro]

You are right, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP is enabled. Probably by default since I didn't do it. I did a quick googling but haven't found what it's for nor whether it's important (for me).

see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9057278

And no, I don't get that much spam :) only the one when initialising. Looks like it's a known bug in lirc_serial and since it doesn't bother me much I'll just wait till it gets fixed.

[jse86]

yeah...umm...i accidently deleted my cvs download of lirc...

so I tried to reconnect and download all of it. BUT there appears to be something wrong...

[infecticide]

I've followed the steps laid out here and I thank you for posting something that works more successfully than the other methods i've tried.

I have a different problem now, when I run irexec I get this:

[Tommm]

infecticide - that's because you're trying to use lircd.conf file that is meant to be placed in /etc; .lircrc synopsis is slightly different http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html#lircrc_format


i've followed instructions posted by ASIO_BOB, i got lirc device working (i guess - cat /dev/lirc/0 gives some output on pressing keys on the remote), i even made my own lircd.conf using irrecord, but that's where i'm stuck - when i start any application that uses lirc, /usr/local/sbin/lircd is instantly killed... (irw, irexec, xmms with lirc plugin)

irw and irexec give no output, xmms spits out this:

[infecticide]

This is the course of action I took to do what you've suggested that the file I have should be in a file called lircd.conf in /etc

[Tommm]

go back to the point, where you got this:

[infecticide]

/me has a heart attack. It works..... thanks guys! My next task is to tackle Postfix. Ugh!

[WladyX]

10x ASIO_BOB it worked for me
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[asiobob]

[WladyX]

Thanks a lot for taking time to inform me of this, i really appreciate it. I merged the portage versions and wooow it works, i didn't know about the lircopts and the package used to get compiled for the serial remote. Thank you, you helped me twice!
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[asiobob]