[mythtv-users] Lirc and Debian

[mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk]

Quoting George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com>:

> Just curious, what do you have in your /etc/hardware.conf? It should  
> contain at least:
>
> DRIVER=atilibusb
> DEVICE=/dev/lircd
>
> which would make it equivalent to your command line. The other  
> possibility is it’s starting too early but I doubt it. At the top of  
> /etc/init.d/lirc do you have the required start line with remote_fs  
> and syslog? Finally, try grep lirc /var/log/daemon.log to see if  
> anything interesting is said during startup.
>
> - George

ISTR Debian defaults to /dev/lircd0 which may explain why it does not  
start for the original poster. Your suggestion should fix it.