Hmmm... I built lircd and lircmd from sources. The binaries are in /usr/local/sbin on my distribution. You may have it in a different place. I suggest searching the drive for them (i.e. find / -name lircd -print) to see where the utilities are. The reason lircd fails when you start irw, is because /dev/lirc can't be stat'ed or opened. In order to get the device back, you need to make sure that lirc can open and attach to your IR device. IR device must be plugged into the card. please do what I suggested in modprobe and grab the output of /var/log/messages to see what messages you get when you load the modules. Please note that the order of load is important. You need to load lirc-dev first, followed by lirc_i2c. Assuming everything works well and lirc modules can determine and attach to your IR card, then you can start lircd and lircmd servers/daemons
HTH Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Rissberger Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 10:53 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup Alex Vishnev wrote: >This is what I have done to fix lirc.. I am not sure why modprobe does not >load it properly sometimes. When I boot, I go to the command line and issue > >modprobe lirc-dev >modprobe lirc_i2c >lircd >lircmd > >That fixed the problem for me. It recreated the devices and link them >properly. > >Alex > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of coutch >Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 6:49 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup > >I'm having a very similar problem. (PVR 150 retail) > >Initially, following Jarod Wilson's instruction to the letter, my setup >is working just fine, and the remote works. > >/dev/lirc0 exists, and /dev/lirc points to it. There's also /dev/lircd > >I can watch live tv, play music, etc ... just fine. > >And suddenly, while watching live TV, I go to change the channel... The >remote simply stops responding. > >only /dev/lircd is left > >trying irw, it simply exits. > >mythbackend & mythfrontend don't echo any error messages. > >nothing new in /var/log/messages > >nothing in modprobe.conf has changed, no software was updated. > >reloading the modules or rebooting doesn't solve the problem. the >devices are simply never created ... > >--Coutch > > > lircd and lircmd are not found when I attempt to run them. I thought that lircd was a service. Normally I run it by /sbin/service lircd restart. It starts but will die the second I attempt to run irw. What I'm curious about is why lirc_i2c is not creating the device that is needed. When I plug the IR receiver into the 150, if I leave it halfway plugged in, the red IR transmitter comes on and stays on. If I plug it all the way in, it turns off. Which way should it be? Also, I'll post by modules.conf as soon as I can. Hopefully someone could point out something that I'm doing wrong. Thanks again. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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