HI! I wondered why lircd was not starting on my machine, so I read trough the scripts and saw the following : /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd: [ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/$HWMOD.o ] \ && insmod $HWMOD $DRIVER_OPTS > /dev/null
#locate lirc_ /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_parallel.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_dev.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_gpio.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_i2c.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_it87.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_serial.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/mod_dvb/lirc_dvb.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-17mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_parallel.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-17mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_dev.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-17mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_gpio.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-17mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_i2c.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-17mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_it87.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-17mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_serial.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-17mdk/kernel/3rdparty/mod_dvb/lirc_dvb.o.gz So there are some glitches in there 1.) Assuming the module is uncompressed 2.) Assuming the module is in 'uname -r'/misc changin the line in [ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/$HWMOD.o.gz ] \ && insmod $HWMOD $DRIVER_OPTS > /dev/null results in a working lircd service. No need to ask ,why modprobe is not used to decide if the module is there and loadable or not , I think. Could this be changed for Cooker ? Greats Steffen
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