[mythtv-users] LIRC problems after Ubuntu 8.04 update --SOLVED

Ian Hodgson ian.hodgson.home at googlemail.com
Tue May 6 07:42:51 UTC 2008


I had a request to post the lines that I changed in my hardware.conf file...

1) First, I used 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices' to determine the correct
remote device number.
2) Then, in the hardware.con file I edited REMOTE_DRIVER="dev/input"
3) And REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/eventx" where x is the number found in
step 1)

With the lircrc file from Gary Parker's site, all is now working.

Ian Hodgson wrote:
> Mario,
>    Many thanks for your suggestion; this was exactly right. I had
> wrongly copied my old hardware.conf file in to the new installation, but
> the format has changed from v7.04 to v8.04. Having correctly set the
> driver and device fields, it is now working.
>
> Thanks again, Ian
>
> Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> Ian Hodgson wrote:
>>  
>>> I have just updated by MythTV box to v0.21 and Ubuntu 8.04; 
>>> everything that I have tried works just fine apart from the 
>>> Hauppauge remote control. I went back to the original installation 
>>> procedure and, after playing about for a while, concluded that the 
>>> lircd is not running. As part of my testing, I tried...
>>>
>>> xxx at yyyy:~$ sudo lircd -n --driver=dev/input --device=/dev/input/event6
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: lircd(userspace) ready
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: initializing '/dev/input/event6'
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: removed client
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: closing '/dev/input/event6'
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: initializing '/dev/input/event6'
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: removed client
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: closing '/dev/input/event6'
>>> lircd-0.8.3pre1[8065]: caught signal
>>>
>>>     ...which worked prefectly with 'irw' and in MythTV, but when I 
>>> try to start the daemon, it will not start...
>>>
>>> xxx at yyyy:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start
>>>  * Loading LIRC 
>>> modules                                                  [ OK ]
>>>  * Starting remote control daemon(s) : 
>>> LIRC                              [fail]
>>>
>>>     I can not find anything in the system logs to indicate the 
>>> source of the problem. I did find an Ubuntu Hardy Heron bug report 
>>> for beta 1 release (204960), but nothing else to indicate that this 
>>> is an ongoing problem. Has anyone else come across this and found a 
>>> way to fix it?
>>> Many thanks.
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>> This sounds like you have /etc/lirc/hardware.conf misconfigured.   
>> You should
>> check what it's contents are.
>>
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