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From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:24:57
Message-Id: 436BB430.3030600@mykitchentable.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc by Hans-Werner Hilse
1 On 11/4/2005 8:52 AM Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
2
3 >Hi,
4 >
5 >On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:31:55 -0800
6 >Drew Tomlinson <drew@××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
7 >
8 >
9 >
10 >>>>And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module:
11 >>>>[...]
12 >>>>
13 >>>>
14 >>>well, and what does dmesg say? Do you have i2c support in the kernel?
15 >>>What kind of IR receiver are you using? Do you need certain kernel
16 >>>drivers for the TV card?
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>>
20 >>Thank you for your reply. Here is the relevant part of dmesg:
21 >>
22 >>lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_add
23 >>lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_destroy
24 >>[...]
25 >>
26 >>
27 >
28 >While just checking google to make sure that I'm not gonna talk
29 >nonsense here, I found a lot of similar trouble descriptions. It seems
30 >that there's some incompatibility between newer kernel versions and
31 >some lirc versions. Are you running lirc w/ ~x86 or just x86? If the
32 >latter is the case (lirc < 0.7.2), I'd recommend
33 >
34 >$ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge lirc
35 >
36
37 Thank you so much! This seems to have solved the problem. I was
38 running version 0.7.0-r1. Now I have 0.7.2 installed and modprobed the
39 lirc_dev module without error. I will verify it's working when I get
40 home tonight.
41
42 Thanks,
43
44 Drew
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