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

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Apr 3 23:34:23 UTC 2006


On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Brian Wood wrote:

>
> 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 ??

Not sure if this is helpful or not, but I got a similar complaint  
after upgrading to 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp. Rather than fix it I just  
booted into 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp and all was well.



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