[mythtv-users] Help - Lirc broken after upgrade to 0.9.0

[Jeff Cranmer]

On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 18:33 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:07 -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Jeff Cranmer <jeff at lotussevencars.com> wrote:
> > > When I run 'emerge -Dav lirc', there is no longer an mceusb instance listed
> > > in the available 'LIRC_DEVICES' use flags.  Are you implying that I still
> > > need to have mceusb as well as devinput in the 'LIRC_DEVICES' entry in
> > > make.conf
> > 
> > I don't use emerge or Gentoo, so I can't speak to that.  The driver
> > that an mceusb receiver needs to use is called "default".
> > 
> > You should be able to run:
> > 
> >   lircd --driver=list
> > 
> > to get a list of supported drivers for your compiled lircd.  You won't
> > see mceusb there, but you must see "default" if you want this to work.
> >  That's the driver you need to use.  If you don't see that, you'll
> > need to recompile with appropriate options to get that driver enabled.
> > 
> > Eric
> 
> No 'default' option listed either as a response to lircd --driver list
> (null) and also no 'default' option listed in the 'LIRC_DEVICES=' make
> options.
> 
> There is a 'userspace' driver option, and an 'all' driver option, but no
> 'default'.  I'll try compiling with LIRC_DEVICES="all" and see if that
> brings up anything else.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
Compiling with LIRC_DEVICES="all" worked, and my system is now
operational.  Still curious to know which is the correct driver, but
hey, I've got plenty of disk space<g>

Thanks for all the help.

Jeff

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