Mike McMullin wrote:
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:45 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 20:48 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Well I am lost, so need a few pointers to get me started... I am running SuSE11.1 and need to get the lirc daemon up an running. Searching around on the internet I get quite a bit of difference information that relates to various other distro's or versions and nothing I can find seem to apply to SuSE. I have use YaST to install all the pertinent packages for LIRC, installed the config files for /etc/lircd.conf and .lircrc in my home directory as I was instructed to do. Most of the documentation I have read seem to imply there should be a device - /dev/lirc but I do not find such. Trying to start the lircd service gives me an error saying as much...
So what do I have to do to get the lircd service up an running under SuSE11.1? Much appreciate any and all help offered..
You'll need the appropriate lircd.conf and lircrc files for the device, as well as the appropriate driver module loaded, so start with the device and look for what driver module it uses. I had LIRC up and running under the PAE kernel, but I've switched to the default kernel and will need to redo some of the steps to get mine up and running again, I'd be glad to help if I can, on the proviso that it stays on the mailing list, so there's actually a SuSE specific LIRC thread that can be googled for later.
Thanks Mike for your offer of help, and I certainly will keep all my responses in this mail list!
Ok, I think I have the lircd.conf and lircrc files defined and installed appropriately. (I could follow the instructions for that part easily enough.) But you said two things that kinda went over the top of my head. You asked me to "start with the device and look for what driver module it uses" Not being a real SuSE/Linux guru uh how do I do that?
I have an Hauppage PVR-150 card with the Grey-350 remote, it requires that the lirc_i2c module be loaded, so the simple question here is what device are you trying to get set up?
You also mentioned the two different types of kernels, and implied that there will be a need to install/config things for each. I have noted, from time to time, when I use SuSE that the powers that be will suddenly give me a new kernel (I note this when the GRUB menu suddenly changes on me and I see a new menu entry for booting up a different version of SuSE. Such things as Xen, and something else which I can't remember anymore from the more distant past, and now this PAE thing has come along, out of the blue, and apparently decided to become the default version for me to use.) I have no idea what this is, but since it got setup and installed, after one of SuSE's security updates, as my default system to use, I just figure I probably am suppose to use it. GRUB still gives me the original version of SuSE to boot up if I want to, I just don't have any idea whether I should go back to it or not.. And I don't really have extra time to try and learn what PAE is right now... Sigh I need a few clones of me!
I'm not a fan of the PAE kernel, I have had too many issues because of it, I've tweaked my /boot/grub/menu.lst file to default to the default kernel. The PAE Kernel has Physical Address Extension support in it, which means that it can access more ram than a normal 32-bit kernel can, amongst other things. Unless you have a non-standard device, and require compiling the driver, it should just update with each kernel release. TO find out which kernel you are using, at a terminal prompt do uname -r.
Mike@P-733-Lin:~> uname -r 2.6.27.29-0.1-default
I'm using the default kernel, and I need to have the lirc-kmp-default package installed, which isn't going to happen due it's not being in the 11.1-oss update repo.
Sorry if my knowledge of Linux/SuSE is not all that robust, I am learning, but it takes time...
Not a problem,these are issues that I have had to deal with getting my PVR up and running, and like you I know how little good SuSE specific info there is out there.
Thanks again Mike. You have convinced me, I don't have any investment in the PAE version of the kernel either, so will switch my version back to the default also. OK here is where I am headed with my media center. I have the Hauppauge 350 card in my system which has an IR receiver and also the gray remote. I believe I have the correct configuration for the lirc.conf and lircrc files for it. (I had this from a previous version of SuSE before I upgraded my system to 11.1 and lost almost everything else. So am in the process of trying to reset that up as well.) I also have an IR Blaster with runs off the serial port of the computer. With this, I am going to want to control a Dish Network HD settop box and a Harmon Kardon receiver. So I have run the IR transmitters to the front panel of each, in front of their IR receivers. I have tracked down a set of button code definitions for the Dish Network HD settop box and appended them to the lirc.conf file (where I already have the button code definitions for the Hauppauge 350 remote) I have not yet tracked down the Harmon Kardon codes yet, so I may have to generate them myself later. YaST2 reports that I have the lirc-kmp-default and lirc-kmp-pae packages already loaded. Eventually I will want to hook all this into MythTV. And yes, if I can get all this figured out, perhaps I will take the time to update the SuSE wiki. It appears a lot of this info that is lying around on the internet is way out of date. Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org