[mythtv-users] lirc and mceusb2 - no /dev/lirc0 node

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 03:44:33 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I just upgraded the kernel on my gentoo mythbox to 2.6.28.  As part of
> this, lirc (0.8.4 - which was working fine some weeks before I changed
> the kernel) was rebuilt against the new kernel without error.
>
> However, inserting the lirc_dev and lirc_mceusb2 modules and starting
> lircd doesnt give any lirc nodes in /dev except for /dev/lircd.
> Previously I had /dev/lirc0.  Ive gone back to the older 2.6.23 kernel -
> now there is no /dev/lirc0 with that one also, either before or after
> rebuilding lirc/libusb and udev :(
>
> Any clues on where lirc0 has gone?

sometimes device numbering changes between kernels, frustrating but true!

might be /dev/lirc/0 or similar.

Try doing

ls -lR /dev > filenameN

both before and after inserting the modules (where N is  different
each time) then

diff filename1 filename2


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