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

[Lucien D.]

On 4/3/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> 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 ??

srw-rw-rw-  1 root root  0 Mar 30 23:49 /dev/lircd

/dev/lirc:
total 0
crw-rw----  1 root root 61, 0 Mar 30 23:52 0


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