[mythtv-users] power failure - now lirc stopped working

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Apr 3 23:30:14 UTC 2006


On Apr 3, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Lucien D. wrote:

>> You don't specify whether you've tried running irrecord in raw mode
>> (in addition to irw) with the receiver - this should let you know if
>> the card is getting anything from the remote via the IR receiver.
>> Other than enabling LIRC logging (if not already) and making sure  
>> your
>> /etc/lircd.conf file is not hosed, I'm not sure what else to suggest.
>>
> Sorry about the slow reply, I've been busy.
>
> Ok, maybe we're getting somewhere now.  irrecord does not work, it
> says it can't connect to the device.  I've tried it both with and
> without lircd running (I assume its not supposed to be running).  I've
> tried it with various flags forcing raw mode and explicitly passing
> the device file.  I've also tried it as both a regular user and root.
>
> So if everything else seems to show the remote as being there (modules
> load, lircd starts fine, ivtv sees ir receiver, etc...) and irrecord
> says it cannot init the hardware, where do I stand?
>

Let's start at the beginning, if it can't connect to the device the  
first question is, does the device exist ??

What does "ls -l /dev/lirc*" tell you ??


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