[mythtv-users] Can't get lirc to work properly

Phill Edwards phill_edwards at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 28 01:31:18 UTC 2004


Have you tried running irrecord? Mode2 seems to be for certain home-brew 
type ir receivers only. If everything's OK you should be able to run 
irrecord which you can use to create a working lircd.conf.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sasha Z" <kleptophobiac at gmail.com>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:22 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Can't get lirc to work properly


> the devices exist, the modules are loaded, dmesg looks good, and yet
> lirc does not function.
>
> I used to have it working not so long ago too!
>
> kernel 2.6.9
> lirc .7pre5 through .7release
> Arch linux
>
> it is starting to supremely frustrate me.
>
> running mode2 gives this error:
>
> [root at mythbox dev]# mode2
> mode2: error opening /dev/lirc
> mode2: No such device or address
>
> yet clearly it exists:
>
> [root at mythbox dev]# ls -alh lirc*
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 61, 0 2004-11-26 13:10 lirc
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 2004-11-26 13:06 lircd
> prw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 2004-11-26 12:49 lircm
>
> and the module is loaded:
>
> [root at mythbox dev]# lsmod | grep lirc
> lirc_atiusb            10828  0
> lirc_dev               11340  1 lirc_atiusb
>
> and dmesg looks fine:
>
> [root at mythbox dev]# dmesg | grep lirc
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
> lirc_atiusb: USB remote driver for LIRC v0.4
> lirc_atiusb: Paul Miller <pmiller9 at users.sourceforge.net>
> usbcore: registered new driver lirc_atiusb
>
> I'm getting ready to toss up my arms and throw the pile onto the side
> of the road.
>


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