[mythtv-users] lirc0 does not exist - any clues

[Robin Hill]

On Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 09:01:36PM +0100, Greg Cope wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I have finaly got a remote (Thanks Ashley) On my FC4 based system I
> think I have a udev issue with lirc.
> 
> On boot I get no /dev/lirc0 device(s) so lirc does not work.  irw
> gives nothing as lircd exits as it cannot find a device.
> 
> Someone must have solved this issue....
> 
> Some clues;
> 
> # rpm -qa | egrep "udev|module-init|lir"
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-0.8.1-62_cvs20060930.fc4.at
> lirc-lib-0.8.1-62_cvs20060930.fc4.at
> lirc-devices-0.7.0-2.fc4.at
> module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.4
> udev-071-0.FC4.3
> lirc-0.8.1-62_cvs20060930.fc4.at
> 
I assume that's a Nova T remote (from your earlier mail).  In this case
it's a dev/input based device, so you may need to start lircd with 
"-H dev/input".  You'll also probably need to tell it which event device
to listen on, so "-d /dev/input/eventX".  Alternately, create a udev
rule (in /etc/udev/rules.d/) to map a specific input device to
/dev/lirc0:
        SUBSYSTEM=="input", SYSFS{dev}=="13:66", KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="lirc0"

HTH,
        Robin
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