[mythtv-users] LIRC serial help

[Mickey Chandler]

At 04:55 PM 11/9/2005, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
>I just bought one of those packard bell remote cheap off ebay. I'm 
>having a problem getting it to work.  Here is the output if i run irw:
>
>root at mythtvbox2:~# lircd --nodaemon
>lircd 0.7.2: lircd(serial) ready
>lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>lircd 0.7.2: could not get hardware features
>lircd 0.7.2: this device driver does not support the new LIRC interface
>lircd 0.7.2: major number of /dev/lirc is 4
>lircd 0.7.2: LIRC major number is 61
>lircd 0.7.2: check if /dev/lirc is a LIRC device
>lircd 0.7.2: caught signal
>Terminated
>
>(I have also install lirc with the packard bell option so the second 
>line has that instead of (serial) but both do the same thing)
>I do have ln /dev/ttyS0 /dev/lirc
>I also have linked S1 to lirc0 and ran lircd with the device option 
>to lirc0.  Can anyone help?

First, get rid of the symbolic links.  Then try using:

lircd --device=/dev/ttyS0 --nodaemon