[mythtv-users] LIRC and IR receiver from irblaster.info

[Nick Morrott]

On 29/03/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have an IR receiver from irblaster.info that I had working on my old
>  FC6/0.20.2 installation.  However, since I rebuilt my box to Fedora 8
>  x86_64 and Myth 0.21, I can't seem to figure out how to configure LIRC
>  for it.  I saved off my lircd.conf and lircrc files from my initial
>  installation and put them back where they belong, but when I start the
>  lircd service, it fails almost immediately saying (in /var/log/messages)
>  "could not get file information for /dev/lirc", then "default_init(): No
>  such file or directory".

This error is frequently caused by 2 issues:

i) not having the LIRC modules (lirc_serial and lirc_dev in your case)
loaded/installed before starting lircd, in which case

# modprobe lirc_serial

should sort this out, if the loadable modules are installed. You
should also make sure you have either in-kernel support for these LIRC
devices (if using a very recent kernel) or the correct LIRC kernel
modules installed on your system.

ii) your installation has created /dev/lirc0 but not /dev/lirc

Some software looks specifically for /dev/lirc instead of /dev/lirc0.
Other software (like lircd) can be given the correct device to use as
a startup parameter. The naming of these LIRC devices (/dev/lirc is
usually created as a symlink to the 'real' device /dev/lirc0) is
commonly controlled via a udev rule for LIRC.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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