[mythtv-users] More LIRC Woes

[Scott Nicholson]

> If you are using devfs then you should remove the /dev/lirc device, it is
> preventing things from working.

Okay. I did "rm /dev/lirc" and then "rmmod lirc_serial" and "rmmod lirc_dev"
and "/etc/init.d/lircd stop" and "modprobe lirc_serial" and
"/etc/init.d/lircd start".

I don't get the errors in dmesg anymore.

But it's still not working.

(that is, I don't receive any input in irw or irrecord, and irsend doesn't
light up the standard LED that I replaced the IR one with for testing
purposes.)

Any more suggestions? (based on dmesg and /var/log/lircd everything seems to
be working properly).

Do I just assume it's my circuit and buy a ready-made?

TIA for any more pointers.
Scott

>
>
> > I'm still not sure if my homebrew IR Transceiver is working or not...
> I've
> > torn it apart and rebuilt it a few time, most recently following a
> > step-by-step that was pointed out in the "IR Frustration" thread. I've
> > checked and re-checked to make sure it's assembled correctly, and
> > everything
> > appears to be good.
> >
> > I'm using the lircd 0.7.0pre2 compiled from source.
> >
> > There's nothing in /var/log/lircd to indicate any problems, and all lirc
> > tools (irw, irrecord, irsend, etc) seem to run okay, apart from the fact
> > that they don't send or receive any signals.
> >
> > dmesg gives some errors, though, when I modprobe lirc_serial. Here's the
> > complete output:
> >
> > lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> > lirc_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
> > lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0
> > _devfs_append_entry(0): dir: "lirc" is not a directory
> > devfs_register(lirc/0): could not append to parent, err: -20
> >
> > I don't know much about devfs, but it appears that lirc_dev is trying to
> > create an entry /dev/lirc/0 but is unable to, because /dev/lirc already
> > exists and is not a directory.
> >
> > /dev/lirc was created (using mknod) when I did "make install".
> >
> > Have I done something wrong in configuring or compiling lirc? Or is this
> a
> > bug? Would I be better off using an earlier version?
> >
> > (I'm running Gentoo)
> >
> > TIA For any help.
> > Scott
> >
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