[mythtv-users] Lirc - Still No Go
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Apr 16 01:01:16 UTC 2006
James Kaufman writes:
> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: default_init(): No such file or directory
> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: caught signal
>
> I couldn't find any device naemd /dev/lirc, so I tried creating it by
> hand and got the exact same error message.
If /dev/lirc0 (not /dev/lirc) isn't there, it means that the lirc kernel
modules are not loaded.
What distro are you on? If Fedora, the 0.7 lirc build in Fedora Extras is
utterly broken, and cannot be used. It does not build or install the
necessary kernel modules.
Hopefully you have a good version of lirc built and installed, you just
forgot to load the kernel module:
modprobe lirc_i2c
And, hopefully, you'll get a bunch of junk in /var/log/messages, that ends
with something like this:
Apr 2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
Apr 2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=Hauppauge IR, addr]
Apr 2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10
After which, you should have /dev/lirc0 (not /dev/lirc).
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