[mythtv-users] LIRC help

[Stephen Tait]

At 08:57 13/08/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>In digging further, I found this in /var/log/messages   It happens this way
>anytime I launch the lircd service and then attempt to start /usr/bin/irw.
>Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?
>
>Aug 13 08:37:24 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: lircd(any) ready
>Aug 13 08:37:24 localhost lircd: lircd startup succeeded
>Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: accepted new client on
>/dev/lircd
>Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: could not open /dev/lirc
>Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: default_init(): No such
>device
>Aug 13 08:37:28 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre4[4304]: caught signal

If it's anything like my PVR-250, the lircd device shows up under 
/dev/lircd/0, whereas lirc (by default) looks for /dev/lircd0

I got mine to work by editing the init script; under gentoo, my lircd line 
looks like this:

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircd -- 
--device=/dev/lirc/0

The --device= option should eb portable everywhere. IIRC the default gentoo 
lirc build also allows you to put these options in  /etc/conf.d/lircd, but 
I didn't know this at the time.