[mythtv-users] Lirc and Ubuntu: Why won't this work?

[Christopher Meredith]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm on a clean installation of Ubuntu 10.10 and trying to get my HD-PVR IR
> blaster to work. I have all the drivers compiled and loaded correctly. The
> problem is getting lirc to run. I;ve never used lirc before so I'm not even
> sure I know what it looks like when it works.
>
> First problem I think is that /var/run/lirc is not created at boot time. It
> seems like it should be. I always have to mkdir it.
>
> Second problem is that even after I create that directory,
> '/etc/init.d/lirc start' doesn't seem to do anything. There is no output and
> the lircd process doesn't start. I *can* do 'sudo lircd' and it starts.
>
> I have an /etc/lirc0 node, but no other /dev/lirc* devices. Is that right?
> I keep seeing people talking about /dev/lircd but I don't have it, even when
> lircd is running.
>
> I feel like I'm close but Googling isn't helping. Anyone know what I'm
> messing up? Thanks.
>

I made progress and now have the ir blaster working. Now all I need is a the
correct codeset for the Cisco RNG150 issued by Comcast. The "85" code
doesn't work.
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