[mythtv-users] SUCCESS!! Finally got MythTV working on FC3...except remote

Rob Rosenfeld mythtv.org at rosenfeld.to
Thu Dec 30 08:44:48 UTC 2004


Matt Lane wrote:

>I am a newbie on Mythtv and it has been a long time on Linux.  It has
>taken me many weeks staying up late....Anyway I was finally able to
>record through my s-video tonight.
>
>My question is, my remote only works if I start the mythfrontend as
>root which of course I don't want to do on a regular basis.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>
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Are you talking about receiving signals on /dev/lirc or sending on 
/dev/lircd?  What are the perms on your /dev/lirc*?  I run lircd with 
the -p 666 arg to make /dev/lircd world readable.


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