So has anyone who's experiencing the problem tried tjc's suggestion of renaming that module and rebooting?

I'll try it but not before I record Lost tonight.

PS: note that Gnarl posted a couple messages at the bottom of the previous page that you might have missed.

looks like saa7134_dvb is loaded in line 119 of /etc/rcS.d/S19KnoppMyth-tv which then loads saa7134 as a dependancy which loads ir_kbd_i2c...

I've unloaded those modules, blacklisted them, and commented out that line on my KnoppMyth box, let's see if that helps.

Bummer, I tried modprobe -r and then moving the ir_kbd_i2c module to my home directory to keep it from loading and rebooting. Even turned off the box for over an hour for good measure in case a firmware issue was still at work.

Each solution was a bust. So the problem must lie elsewhere.

What you said is more correct than my original description. The 0 indicates a modules with no other modules that depend on it. I was following the bad example of the lsmod header which says:

I tried renaming the module and rebooting - that has seemed to solve my problems. /var/log/messages is clear and LIRC is very responsive.

If you do not need saa7134-dvb, I believe you can disable by editing /etc/init.d/KnoppMyth-tv (near the end) you will see the following:




I simply commented out the modprobe for saa7134-dvb as such:




That stopped all of the saa7134 stuff from loading for me (including ir_kbd_i2c so I didn't really need to rename it).

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HITACHI 500GB (IDE)
Seagate 750GB (SATA)
Hauppauge PVR 350,500
HDHR
Enermax Noisetaker 600W
Zalman HD160 Black

I followed the instructions from syphr42 and the remote now works GREAT.

Thanks to all for tracking this down!

Thanks a bunch to the whole Knoppmyth team for all their hard work too!

Same here! Thanks syphr42!

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120 GB Western Digital

I was hoping this would do it but no dice... I followed syphr42's instructions but my remote is still unresponsive. For all I know, though, I may have screwed something else up prior to this while trying to fix it myself. I'll keep troubleshooting, or maybe try an auto-upgrade and start from a clean slate. Thanks for helping with this.

Huh, I thought i greped there..

Thanks

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ceenvee, I've had the same experience you have, wondering if all the experiments toward a solution have borked something else. My remote is also unresponsive and now I note that the "unknown key" messages no longer show up either. Hmmm

I meant to mention that part: the unknown key messages in /var/log/messages have indeed disappeared, but the remote still doesn't work. I've run lirc-reconfig.sh to try to reset things like lircd.conf, with no luck.

My next solution is on its way via Amazon: a Streamzap remote. I just want something that works at this point...

Well, of course, now that I've thrown money at the problem, I seem to have fixed my Hauppauge remote.

Here's what I did in addition to the above module removal (which was not sufficient to fix my remote): not sure which of these things did it, if not all combined:

* Noticed that I had /etc/lirc/lircd.conf but not /etc/lircd.conf . I had backed up a version of /etc/lircd.conf and it was a symlink to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf . So I made another one:



* Found this page:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LIRC#lirc_ ... ation_file

which says that DEVICE should equal "/dev/lirc0" and not "/dev/lirc/0". In /etc/init.d/lirc , line 34, it indeed refers to /dev/lirc/0, so I changed it to /dev/lirc0.

* Also, in line 83 of /etc/init.d/lirc, there is a line that ends "$LIRCD_ARGS\" That backslash didn't look right so I put a space there: "$LIRCD_ARGS \"

Rebooted, and it's working. Go figure.

I was having the same issue, but didn't have the saa* line to comment out in /etc/init.d/KnoppMyth-tv (i'm running R5C7)...

instead i did this which seems to have worked!

mv /lib/modules/2.6.18-chw-13/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134 /lib/modules/2.6.18-chw-13/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-disabled

thanks for all the tips in this thread!

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edit: oops! it seems that the fix was short lived, probably more to do with my rebooting than a real fix... now a half hour later the slowdown has surfaced again...

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I've tried everything mentioned before and my lirc still isn't working. The only buttons that work are the number pad (0-9). I checked my lirc conf and it seems like everything else is configured correctly. When I run irw, the buttons come across correctly when pressed.

For reference, when I commented out the line about saa7134-dvb, the error messages in /var/log/messages stopped and the number pad wasn't functional.

Has anyone else come across any other possible solutions?

Here's some of my /home/mythtv/.lircrc



When I type in z on my keyboard, it commercial skips correctly but when I hit blue nothing happens.

What is the definition for the blue button in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf? Remember that the names must match exactly.