[mythtv-users] New Problem with LIRC and Tivo remote...

Nate Thompson natet at buckeye-express.com
Mon Mar 22 20:38:28 EST 2004


Hello all,

I got another PVR-250 and this one seems to work so I went on to the next
step in Jarod's guide. Unfortunately I have hit another snag with getting
LIRC to work properly. Everything has installed properly (following the
directions given in the guide). However, when I try '/usr/bin/irw', it
immediately dumps me back to the prompt. Checking the /var/log/messges file,
I found the following information:
Mar 22 20:07:23 localhost lircd: lircd startup succeeded 
Mar 22 20:07:27 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3610]: accepted new client on
/dev/lircd 
Mar 22 20:07:27 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3610]: could not get hardware
features 
Mar 22 20:07:27 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3610]: this device driver does not
support the new LIRC interface 
Mar 22 20:07:27 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3610]: major number of /dev/lirc
is 4
Mar 22 20:07:27 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3610]: LIRC major number is 61 
Mar 22 20:07:27 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3610]: check if /dev/lirc is a
LIRC device 
Mar 22 20:07:27 localhost lircd 0.7.0pre1[3610]: caught signal

If I check the status of the lircd service (/sbin/service lircd status), I
get 'lircd dead but subsys locked' in response. I am using a homebrew serial
IR receiver that works with WinLIRC on my Windows PC. I have loaded the tivo
lircd.conf file into the /etc directory. I did a search of the mailing list
and while I found people with similar issues, I never really caught a
solution. Any help would definitely be apprechiated.

Thanks,

Nate Thompson
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