[mythtv-users] Re: irw works but not mythtv

Derek Anderson public at kered.org
Sun Jan 4 18:13:08 EST 2004


follow up v2.0...

i solved my own problem.  it was a permissions issue on /dev/lircd. 
root had rw, yet everyone else (including myth) had r.


Derek Anderson wrote:
> follow up...
> could it be because my lirc is using /dev/lirc/0 instead of the old 
> /dev/lirc?  is gentoo coded to use /dev/lirc, and not the lircd?  where 
> could i change this in the myth source code?
> 
> 
> Derek Anderson wrote:
> 
>> hey all,
>>
>> i've got an interesting problem here.
>> irw works just fine, yet mythTV does not.
>>
>> i'm ising lirc v0.7.0pre2, patched to support i2c v2.8.0
>> gentoo's mythtv v0.12 ebuilds (with the lirc flag)
>>
>> the obvious answer of course is "you're not building in lirc support". 
>> but it really is there in my /var/tmp/portage/.../work dir:
>>  --- settings.pro ---
>> # Native lirc support
>> CONFIG += using_lirc
>> EXTRA_LIBS += -llirc_client
>>
>>
>> has anyone a suggestion?
>>
> 
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