[mythtv-users] Auto-start of lirc kernel module

Alan Snyder ax763 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 17 12:26:33 EDT 2003


Please excuse me if I'm missing something that I shouldn't. I *think* I've followed the install guide and other sources carefully.  Please excuse me also if this is posted twice - my first post did not seem to go through but it could have been an email prob on my end.

I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and have done the following:

Uninstalled the Mandrake-supplied lirc.

Built lirc from the CVS.

Under devfs, the lirc_gpio module wants to create /dev/lirc/0 rather than /dev/lirc, so I removed the /dev/lirc special device created by lirc's make install and made a directory instead. Did chmod 666 /dev/lirc? and chmod 777 /dev/lirc.

Added alias char-major-61 lirc_gpio to the top of /etc/modules.conf (position probably doesn't matter for gpio).

Manual start (modprobe lirc_gpio && /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc/0) works as expected. Did ldconfig after first manual start.

Added /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc/0 to the end of rc.local. --device is needed since lircd tries to hook to /dev/lirc regardless of what lirc_gpio did.

On boot, lircd does not start successfully, apparently because the lirc_gpio module is not loading. I thought that it would load automatically due to the alias in modules.conf. Is the /dev/lirc/0 thing the problem?

I don't have the Mandrake script to start lircd because, from what I read elsewhere, I uninstalled the Mandrake lirc rpm.

Thanks for any help. After getting this one last thing ironed out perhaps I can find a way to contribute.



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