{"id":346,"date":"2007-03-13T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/13\/lack-of-control\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T18:07:01","slug":"lack-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/13\/lack-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I blindly (and in retrospect, foolishly) agreed to an automatic <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/27\/suse-pain-online-updates\/\">update<\/a> to the kernel on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensuse.org\/\">OpenSUSE<\/a> 10.2 box.  After this update, it appears that my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lirc.org\/\">LIRC<\/a> installation no longer works, meaning my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/02\/setting-up-opensuse-with-a-remote-control\/\">Remote Control<\/a> is not currently functioning in Linux.  From what I can tell, others have had similar problems in the past, having to do with lirc modules that are no longer compatible with the kernel or something.  It looks like I might have to uninstall, then download the source, build the modules myself and try to install that way.  Ugh...  Does anybody have any pointers?    <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I'm pasting some debug-type info here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code\">\n<p>\nschiller@helium:~> uname -r<br \/>\n2.6.18.8-0.1-default<br \/>\nschiller@helium:~> lsmod &#124; grep lirc<br \/>\nlirc_atiusb            21560  1<br \/>\nlirc_dev               18548  1 lirc_atiusb<br \/>\nusbcore               115024  3 lirc_atiusb,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd<br \/>\nschiller@helium:~> cat \/etc\/modprobe.conf.local<br \/>\n#<br \/>\n# please add local extensions to this file<br \/>\n#<br \/>\nalias char-major-61 lirc_atiusb<br \/>\nalias lirc_dev lirc_atiusb<\/p>\n<p>schiller@helium:~> ps -aef &#124; grep lirc<br \/>\nroot      2189  2188  0 08:11 ?        00:00:00 \/sbin\/modprobe -q -- lirc_dev<br \/>\nschiller  8788  7879  0 13:18 pts\/5    00:00:00 grep lirc<br \/>\nschiller@helium:~>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/linux\/download\/updates\/102_x86_64.html\">this page<\/a> which says the lirc-kmp-default package needs updates.  I'll have to see if I have this version or not, but this could very well be my problem.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I blindly (and in retrospect, foolishly) agreed to an automatic update to the kernel on my OpenSUSE 10.2 box. After this update, it appears that my LIRC installation no longer works, meaning my Remote Control is not currently functioning in Linux. From what I can tell, others have had similar problems [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}