[mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

Steve stgarf at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 05:34:02 UTC 2005


Sooo can anyone help me?

On 10/1/05, Steve G <stgarf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker
> > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
> >
> > > Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you set the access
> > rights
> > > on the lirc* devices ?
> > >
> > > Niels Dybdahl
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Steve
> > > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:39 AM
> > > Subject: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
> > >
> > >
> > > A friend of mine gave me an "ATI Remote Wonder" remote and usb
> > receiver.
> > > From my understanding it is a RF setup here, not an IR setup.
> > > I am running gentoo, so someone told me I needed to emerge lirc when I
> > > have LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=atiusb" in my make.conf. So I did "#
> > > emerge unmerge lirc" and then I did "emerge --newuse lirc". The
> problem
> > > I have is I start lircd by doing "# lircd -n" It says whatever it
> > > says... then I log in to another terminal as a normal user and do "$
> > > irw". This just brings me back to "$ " and causes the "# lircd -n"
> that
> > > I ran to crash whilst complaining about not finding /dev/lirc.
> > >
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > This sounds very much like the problem I had with my usb receiver.
> >
> > What are you getting in /var/log/messages when you start lircd?
> Oct 1 12:32:55 MythTv lircd-0.7.2[21570]: lircd(atiusb) ready
> When I start irw and go back to the console I started "lircd -n" on I see
> this:
> MythTV ~ # lircd -n
> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: lircd(atiusb) ready
> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: default_init(): No such file or directory
> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: caught signal
> Terminated
> MythTV ~ #
>
> > I had to symlink my /dev/lirc node to /dev/usb/hiddev0 (your usb device
> > may well be different).
> I'm not sure where my USB device is... I've tried various ls's in /dev to
> find it to no avail. But I gather this much from what you're saying: "# ln
> -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc" or am I way off?
>
> > If the driver needs a module has this been built and installed, and does
> > it load?
> I'm not sure what you mean here, but I have built lirc with "atiusb" in
> the
> LIRC_OPTS in my make.conf.
>
> > Are you running udev? This should take care of your /dev node mappings
> for
> > you. Unfortunately I can't on my system.
>
> Yea, I do have udev...
>
>
>
> "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,
> stand
> like a rock."
>
>
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