[mythtv-users] LIRC and IR receiver from irblaster.info

[Harry Devine]

I have an IR receiver from irblaster.info that I had working on my old 
FC6/0.20.2 installation.  However, since I rebuilt my box to Fedora 8 
x86_64 and Myth 0.21, I can't seem to figure out how to configure LIRC 
for it.  I saved off my lircd.conf and lircrc files from my initial 
installation and put them back where they belong, but when I start the 
lircd service, it fails almost immediately saying (in /var/log/messages) 
"could not get file information for /dev/lirc", then "default_init(): No 
such file or directory".

I did see some posts on the links via the Wiki where it is discussed 
modifying /etc/modprobe.conf with "lircd --driver=<some driver>", but I 
didn't have that in my original modprobe.conf file, so I'm unsure what 
is meant there.  I'm pretty sure that I'm not telling lirc what device 
to use, but I'm unsure what to tell it to use for my receiver.  I think 
that once that's done, the lircd.conf and lircrc files will just work.  
This is the last piece that I need to have my Myth installation back to 
where it was before I nuked it from scratch.

Thanks for any hints!
Harry