[mythtv-users] LIRC still giving me grief. Hauppage grey remote.HELP!

ray cielencki mythtv at rayslinky.com
Tue Oct 28 04:34:52 EST 2003


have a look at 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/RH9_Nehemiah_w/_PVR-250_FE&BE_distribution_P81846/

this discusses some workarounds for devfs/lirc weirdness.

/rayc

At 04:14 10/28/2003, you wrote:
>i've followed the instructions meticulously, one of the directives is to
>rm -rf the old /dev/lirc before installation of the new lirc package.
>here's what i have right now...
>
>[root at mythbox log]# ls -al /dev/li*
>crw-r--r--    1 root     root      61,   0 Oct 27 21:51 /dev/lirc
>srw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 Oct 27 22:22 /dev/lircd=
>
>which is what the instructions say i should...i think =).
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Paris" <jim at jtan.com>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC still giving me grief. Hauppage grey
>remote.HELP!
>
>
> > > the last 2
> > > lines are the crux of the matter, i think.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > Oct 27 22:39:52 mythbox kernel: _devfs_append_entry(0): dir: "lirc" is
>not a directory
> > > Oct 27 22:39:52 mythbox kernel: devfs_register(lirc/0): could not append
>to parent, err: -20
> >
> > You probably have some stray file "/dev/lirc".  Remove that.
> > Or, if it doesn't exist, make a directory there.
> >
> > -jim



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