[mythtv-users] new kernel problems
Jim Coates
jcoates at jimcoates.com
Thu Sep 2 09:42:02 EDT 2004
I went and installed from cvs with no change (no compile probs either). So
I removed /dev/lirc then dir mkdir /dev/lirc mknod /dev/lirc/lirc0 and it
started working. I wonder how that device got removed. Either way, thanks
for your responses, it motivated me to try harder to get this working.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Kelly" <kyle at kylekelly.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] new kernel problems
> Jim Coates wrote:
>
> > lisa ~ # ls -l /dev/lir*
> > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 61, 0 Sep 1 03:58 /dev/lirc
> > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Sep 1 07:58 /dev/lircd
> > prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 1 03:58 /dev/lircm
> >
> I just installed lirc on my latest gentoo installation. It required the
> use of lirc cvs and a few other steps. This forum page helps greatly:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1448997
>
> You also might encounter some problems compiling the lirc cvs as well.
> I needed to issue the make command as root for it to finish, then it
> would get an error at line 813 in lirc_dev.c. I believe just commenting
> it out solved this problem. I then needed to follow the steps discussed
> in the last post in that forum page, ie mknod etc.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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