[mythtv-users] XBox IR remote & lirc?

[Victor]

I've played with this EXACT issue for hours... to no avail. I've tried
making manually making a /dev/lirc0, compiling lirc from source, playing
with the devfs rules and nothing. I'm out of steam and frankly have just
about given up on it.

Vic

Jonathan Oexner wrote:

>Hi, I'm attempting to set up my XBox as a Myth frontend.  The old
>one's hard drive died after being on for just about 18 months
>straight; go fig.
>
>So I decided to go Gentoo, as per the instructions here:
>http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_for_Xbox  All is going well, except the
>lirc driver doesn't seem to be picking up the DVD remote dongle.  I'm
>using app-misc/lirc-0.7.0-r1 with the XBox make.profile, and a
>2.6.12.5-xbox kernel.  I get the module lirc_xboxusb, I can load and
>unload it with no problems, but I never get the /dev/lirc0 device node
>like /etc/conf.d/lircd seems to expect to find.  Any ideas, hints?
>
>Thanks,
>-Jon
>
>The relevant portion of dmesg output:
>
>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
>
>lirc_xbox: XBOX USB remote driver for LIRC v0.3
>usbcore: registered new driver lirc_xbox
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