[mythtv-users] More LIRC Woes

[Scott Nicholson]

> Irrecord won't get an input if lircd is running.  Irrecord tries to
> access /dev/lirc (/dev/lirc/0) directly and both of them can't have it
> opened.

Okay, I tried stopping lircd and irrecord still doesn't receive anything.

At any rate, irw doesn't show anything either.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Scott Nicholson
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:19 AM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] More LIRC Woes
> 
> 
> > Have you verified that /dev/lirc/0 is created after you load the
> > driver?
> 
> /dev/lirc/0 is created when I modprobe lirc_serial
> 
> > Assuming that /dev/lirc/0 is the correct device file, are you
> > specifying this to lircd when you test it? By default, lircd assumes
> > that it should connect to /dev/lirc to talk to the device driver. If
> > /dev/lirc/0 is the correct device file, you will need to specify
> > '--device=/dev/lirc/0' on the lircd command line when it is started in
> 
> > order to tell it the correct file to open.
> 
> My /etc/conf.d/lircd contains:
> 
> LIRCD_OPTS="-d /dev/lirc/0"
> 
> And I'm starting lircd with "/etc/init.d/lircd start". Looking at
> /etc/init.d/lircd it appears that it should be reading the options and
> applying them to the startup command.
> 
> > What about the serial driver in the kernel? Are you making sure to
> > either not load the serial port driver, or to use setserial to set the
> 
> > uart to none so that the kernel won't fight with lirc over the serial
> > port?
> 
> I was doing "setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none" and then to make double
> certain I recompiled the kernel with the serial driver modularized. I
> don't have any /dev/ttySx anymore, so I assume I don't need to use
> setserial.
> 
> > I wouldn't assume a hardware problem yet. It still sounds like you may
> 
> > have configuration issues.
> 
> Any more suggestions?
> Scott
> 
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