[mythtv-users] How to make the LIRC_DEVICE static in Fedora 16

[Boleslaw Ciesielski]

On 12/07/2011 11:55 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>> What do you mean it didn't help? You do not get the symlink? I have
>> this in the udev rules file:
>>
>> KERNEL=="event[0-9]", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="i2c IR (Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350", SYMLINK+="hauppauge-ir"
>>
>> and it works fine.
>>
>> Also, in case of PVR-x50 you need to have an executable
>> something.modules file in /etc/sysconfig/modules with this in it:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> modprobe ir-kbd-i2c
>>
> 
> This was the symlink I put in per the wiki:
> ln -fs /dev/input/`cat /proc/bus/input/devices|grep -A 3
> "Hauppauge"|grep event|cut -d ' ' -f3` /dev/input/remote
> 
> which created this symlink: remote -> /dev/input/
> in this directory: /dev/input

This seems wrong. The symlink should point to /dev/input/eventX, not to
/dev/input.

Try the udev rule. Create a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with .rules
extension and put the above line in it. Then reboot. It should create
symlink like this

/dev/hauppauge-ir -> /dev/input/eventX