Sooo can anyone help me?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve G</b> <<a href="mailto:stgarf@gmail.com">stgarf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org
</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-">mythtv-users-</a><br>> <a href="mailto:bounces@mythtv.org">bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker<br>> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM<br>> To: Discussion about mythtv
<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help<br>><br>> > Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you set the access<br>> rights<br>> > on the lirc* devices ?<br>> ><br>> > Niels Dybdahl
<br>> > ----- Original Message -----<br>> > From: Steve<br>> > To: Discussion about mythtv<br>> > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:39 AM<br>> > Subject: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > A friend of mine gave me an "ATI Remote Wonder" remote and usb<br>> receiver.<br>> > From my understanding it is a RF setup here, not an IR setup.<br>> > I am running gentoo, so someone told me I needed to emerge lirc when I
<br>> > have LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=atiusb" in my make.conf. So I did "#<br>> > emerge unmerge lirc" and then I did "emerge --newuse lirc". The problem<br>> > I have is I start lircd by doing "# lircd -n" It says whatever it
<br>> > says... then I log in to another terminal as a normal user and do "$<br>> > irw". This just brings me back to "$ " and causes the "# lircd -n" that<br>> > I ran to crash whilst complaining about not finding /dev/lirc.
<br>> ><br>> > Any help is greatly appreciated.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> This sounds very much like the problem I had with my usb receiver.<br>><br>> What are you getting in /var/log/messages when you start lircd?
<br> Oct 1 12:32:55 MythTv lircd-0.7.2[21570]: lircd(atiusb) ready<br>When I start irw and go back to the console I started "lircd -n" on I see<br>this:<br> MythTV ~ # lircd -n<br> lircd-0.7.2
[21632]: lircd(atiusb) ready<br> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd<br> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc<br> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: default_init(): No such file or directory
<br> lircd-0.7.2[21632]: caught signal<br> Terminated<br> MythTV ~ #<br><br>> I had to symlink my /dev/lirc node to /dev/usb/hiddev0 (your usb device<br>> may well be different).<br>I'm not sure where my USB device is... I've tried various ls's in /dev to
<br>find it to no avail. But I gather this much from what you're saying: "# ln<br>-s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc" or am I way off?<br><br>> If the driver needs a module has this been built and installed, and does<br>
> it load?<br>I'm not sure what you mean here, but I have built lirc with "atiusb" in the<br>LIRC_OPTS in my make.conf.<br><br>> Are you running udev? This should take care of your /dev node mappings for<br>
> you. Unfortunately I can't on my system.<br><br>Yea, I do have udev...<br><br><br><br>"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand<br>like a rock."<br><br></blockquote></div><br>