I am trying to get the IR Blaster that came with my PVR-150 (new for this purpose) to function properly. I guess it is the silver remote, or possibly the grey. This is the only one I have ever laid eyes on, but it looks silver to me. The remote receiver works, just not the transmitter.

Using this thread:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6206&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0



I do not get very far. I get an error when doing the tar, see below.
I've done three complete reinstalls of KnoppMyth (not directly related to this error, have other issues as well) and each time I get the same result.



I did check and verify the md5sum as well for the .iso I burned to CD.

When I go on to the next step, I can certainly wget the file indicated.
When doing the tar on on lirc-0.7 it returns the command prompt with no errors.
However, when I do the ./configure I get the following after a long string of stuff:



Checking with Synaptic, it says the kernal source is installed.

If I continue on and try the make && make install I get this:




To no surprise, given my abilities (or lack thereof), I am stuck.

Just for general knowledge, KnoppMyth does work on this system. I can watch live tv as well as record stuff and stream stuff. The IR Blaster does not work, nor does the "install-nvidia" work. I think it needs nvidia7676, which I did not see as an option, but tried them all anyway. Burning to DVD does not work either. However, I am just taking this one step at a time.

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Forgot to reference dmesg, and here is part of what was in it.

Of course this isn't going to work... You need to untar the source to compile LIRC. Probably a bad burn...burn at a lower speed or different media.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Ugh.....

I was afraid someone would say that, now that I have 20+Gb worth of shows to watch.
I sure hate to delete them but can't get this thing to burn DVD's either and it takes a full day (8+ hours) to get KnoppMyth to a running state. Howver, on the bright side, maybe a "good" burn will subtract some of the gymnastics I have to go through to get this beast running.

I will re-burn a new .iso, slow and steady.

I sure hope you're right.

Thanks for the input.

You can check a CD after you have burnt it using testcd. It's not terribly well documented how to use the testcd option to verify your CD image, but it's almost trivial. Simply add the word "testcd" to the end of your options when booting from the CD. It doesn't work all by itself so you need to say something like "tv testcd" or "expert testcd" or "knoppmyth tescd", but it does work. I think it checks it before presenting the install menu, so you should be able to do this without actually going ahead and re-installing.

The other thing you could do, assuming that the corruption is only in the kernel sources is to just mount a newly burnt cd (without corruption) and copy the linux source tarball onto your hard disk over the top of the corrupted one. Of course, there is no telling what else on your installation may be corrupted.

Doesn't this cause a dilema......

I will dink around with these suggestions and hopefully remember to post any findings.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

EDIT:

Just as a thought, would the following topic post of mine have any relationship with the issues presented in this post?

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7351

Yes. The kernel sources are required to install the nvidia driver too. With recent knoppmyth versions, this would occur automatically during the install if you have an nvidia card.

Greg Frost,

Thanks for prompting me to "testcd".
It failed.

Re-burnt, re-installed.

Things are looking much better this time around.

That has never happened to me before. No wonder I was banging my head on the wall trying to figure out why nothing was going as it should.

Again, thanks for the help.