[mythtv-users] Trouble with Install... Gave up unless help can be given. :(

Aaron hansolo77.geo at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 2 04:58:46 UTC 2006


So, are you saying I should have LIRC OFF when I try to run IRW?



>> This is where my next problem came.  I ran 'irw' as per documented to 
>> see if I could get any commands to display.  IRW executed and dropped 
>> a line down, but then did nothing.  It appeared to be frozen.  I hit 
>> CONTROL+C to cancel, and it dropped another line before displaying 
>> the prompt.  I opened up /var/log/messages and saw that the port was 
>> closed as soon as I ran IRW.  I thought it might have been something 
>> wrong with access rights, but I did all the appropriate steps (chmod 
>> or whatever it is).
>> QUESTION #2 -> What am I doing wrong?  What am I missing?
>
>
> Do you have lircd running when you run irw? I seem to recall that I 
> came across a similar problem, and it turned out that I have lircd 
> running when I shouldn't have had. I also had a weird thing where irw 
> would work on the local console, but not over SSH.



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