Public bug reported:
Hi,
When i upgraded to Gutsy, my remote control stopped working thru
lirc (it still translates some events to the terminal and applications).
Today i took the night to discover the reason. On my syslog i found
this:
Nov 22 10:36:21 filho kernel: [ 62.706967] input: cx88 IR (PixelView PlayTV
Ultra as /class/input/input4
Nov 22 10:36:21 filho kernel: [ 62.707046] cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:00:0b.0,
rev: 5, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe0000000
...
Nov 22 23:37:38 xxxx lircd-0.8.2-CVS[6052]: lircd(userspace) ready
Nov 22 23:47:53 xxxx lircd-0.8.2-CVS[6052]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Nov 22 23:47:53 xxxx lircd-0.8.2-CVS[6052]: initializing
'/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.0--event-ir'
Nov 22 23:47:53 xxxx lircd-0.8.2-CVS[6052]: can't get exclusive access to
events comming from `/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.0--event-ir' interface
After googling a lot, i haven't found anything usefull about
exclusive access.
I thought it could be a competition between lirc and x.org, so i
stopped GDM, went to terminal and tried irw which worked!
I came back to gnome, tried sudo irw, which haven't worked.
I have tried installing lirc from feisty, and it give me the same
syslog messages. Switched back.
So, i have tried to boot on feisty kernell (2.6.20-16-generic) and
x.org worked with lirc from gutsy!
So, the problem seems to be related to the kernel.
Hope this helps you guys to find a suitable explanation.
OBS.: It seems that lots of changes have been made to the kernel...
firstly i can't boot the new kernel (i had to update the initramfs with
the ide-core and ide-generic modules) and now, lirc applications can't
get exclusive access to a interface.
thanks!
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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lirc based applications can not get exclusive access to /dev/input interface
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164627
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