> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help > > > Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you set the access > rights > > on the lirc* devices ? > > > > Niels Dybdahl > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Steve > > To: Discussion about mythtv > > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:39 AM > > Subject: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help > > > > > > A friend of mine gave me an "ATI Remote Wonder" remote and usb > receiver. > > From my understanding it is a RF setup here, not an IR setup. > > I am running gentoo, so someone told me I needed to emerge lirc when I > > have LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=atiusb" in my make.conf. So I did "# > > emerge unmerge lirc" and then I did "emerge --newuse lirc". The problem > > I have is I start lircd by doing "# lircd -n" It says whatever it > > says... then I log in to another terminal as a normal user and do "$ > > irw". This just brings me back to "$ " and causes the "# lircd -n" that > > I ran to crash whilst complaining about not finding /dev/lirc. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > > This sounds very much like the problem I had with my usb receiver. > > What are you getting in /var/log/messages when you start lircd? Oct 1 12:32:55 MythTv lircd-0.7.2[21570]: lircd(atiusb) ready When I start irw and go back to the console I started "lircd -n" on I see this: MythTV ~ # lircd -n lircd-0.7.2[21632]: lircd(atiusb) ready lircd-0.7.2[21632]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd lircd-0.7.2[21632]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc lircd-0.7.2[21632]: default_init(): No such file or directory lircd-0.7.2[21632]: caught signal Terminated MythTV ~ #
> I had to symlink my /dev/lirc node to /dev/usb/hiddev0 (your usb device > may well be different). I'm not sure where my USB device is... I've tried various ls's in /dev to find it to no avail. But I gather this much from what you're saying: "# ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc" or am I way off? > If the driver needs a module has this been built and installed, and does > it load? I'm not sure what you mean here, but I have built lirc with "atiusb" in the LIRC_OPTS in my make.conf. > Are you running udev? This should take care of your /dev node mappings for > you. Unfortunately I can't on my system. Yea, I do have udev... "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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