[mythtv-users] lirc woes: gray haupauge remote

[Dan Conti]

What version of lirc did you install? Where'd the package come from? If
you look in the archives there was a bug that made it into the cvs
snapshots on lirc.org, which also made it into some of the packaged RPMs.

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, James Colannino wrote:

> Hey everyone.  I've run into another problem that I've never had
> before.  Again, I followed and re-checked the procedure outlined in
> Jarod's guide, and while it's worked before, it refuses to work now :(
> I've installed the lirc-kmdl package for my kernel as well as the lirc
> package.  Everything looks good.  The chipset is detected when I check
> dmesg and the lircd service starts up fine without complaining.  I
> checked /var/log/messages and everything looked good in there as well.
> However, I fired up irw and nothing happened.  I did copy lircd-g.conf
> to /etc/lircd.conf, and I even created my user's .lircrc file.  However,
> the remote doesn't do anything.  irxevent + mythfrontend doesn't do
> anything either.  I fired up my old installation where I knew things
> were working to check and see if it would work now.  I thought maybe the
> batteries in the remote had gone bad or something.  But no such luck :(
> It worked fine on my old installation, which leaves me wondering what
> exactly I did wrong.  As far as I can tell, I did everything exactly the
> same.  Anyone know what I should check next?  Anyone else having
> similiar problems?  Thanks in advance.
>
> James
>
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