[mythtv-users] Lirc doesn't work :-(

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 10/18/07, shacky <shacky83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install and use Lirc 0.8.0 on a system running Debian
> testing (lenny) to use an automaked serial receiver, but it doesn't
> work.
> I don't think the problem to be the receiver because I made 2 pieces
> and none of them works. And I used a receiver which works on another
> system.
> I installed lirc and lirc-modules-source using apt-get from the
> ufficial Debian repositories and I compiled the modules lirc_dev and
> lirc_serial without any problem.
> I setted the /dev/ttyS0 serial port as "uart none" with setserial and
> I configured Lirc to load the drivers at the boot time.
> When the system starts, Lirc and the modules lirc_dev and lirc_serial
> are loaded correctly, and Lircd is loaded with "--device=/dev/lirc0".


This last bit is your problem.

In fact, the receiver doesn't work.
> When I launch "irrecord" as "root", I get this error:
>
> irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running? --> close it, check
> permissions)


And here's irrecord telling you explicitly that that's the problem.  You
need to stop lircd before you try to run irrecord.

Carl Fongheiser
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