[mythtv-users] irxevent question

[Mike Jasper]

Bryan Halter wrote:

> I got my ATI remote working with LIRC on the 2.6.4 kernel through
> irxevent.  My system is set to automatically login and start myth when
> it boots.  How do I make irxevent start automatically?  If I try to
> start it from the command line I get an error about not being able to
> access the display.  I apologize for this being a bit OT since its
> mainly a gnome question but figured you guys would know.

If you're running Red Hat or Fedora, you can put an entry in 
/etc/rc.d/rc.local.  Type 'which irxevent' at the command line to 
determine the full path, then add that path to rc.local, such as this:

/usr/bin/irxevent

Not sure for other distros.