okay, in my opinion the patch your have applied, is handling the case when you have 2 infrared receivers installed
maybe a onboard ir-receiver on your tv-tuner -- imon driver does not work, irw crashes lircd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to lirc in ubuntu. Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: lirc Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 lirc 0.8.3-0ubuntu2 Linux Infra-red Remote Control support o...@mediapc:~# dmesg | grep imon [ 334.839718] lirc_imon: Driver for Soundgraph iMON MultiMedia IR/VFD w/imon pad2keys patch, v0.3p2k [ 334.839733] lirc_imon: Venky Raju <[email protected]> [ 334.841034] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_imon r...@mediapc:~# lsmod | grep lirc lirc_imon 23052 0 lirc_dev 20020 1 lirc_imon usbcore 148848 7 lirc_imon,usbhid,usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd,ehc i_hcd When I run irw it simply exits the 1st time without any message, the second time it errors and the lirc daemon crashes. r...@mediapc:~# /etc/init.d/lirc restart * Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC [ OK ] * Loading LIRC modules [ OK ] * Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC [ OK ] r...@mediapc:~# irw r...@mediapc:~# irw connect: Connection refused r...@mediapc:~# /etc/init.d/lirc restart * Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC [fail] * Loading LIRC modules [ OK ] * Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC [ OK ] I do not have a /dev/lirc0 but I do have /dev/lircd. Running irw /dev/lircd does not help. Mode 2 errors: r...@mediapc:~# mode2 mode2: error opening /dev/lirc mode2: No such file or directory _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
