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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vladan Bato</b> <<a href="mailto:vbato@ieee.org">vbato@ieee.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Tom Lichti wrote:<br>> My DVD remote works just fine with Rob's torrent. I have a genuine<br>> Microsoft one, is yours an aftermarket one?
<br><br>Yes, mine is an aftermarket one. I bought it because it costs half the<br>Microsoft one and looks exaclty the same.<br>It worked perfectly for watching DVDs with the original Xbox firmware,<br>before I did the hadrware mod and replaced the rom.
<br><br>What is bugging me is the error message in dmesg, which I think is a<br>problem with devfs and has nothing to do with the actual remote.<br><br>Here's what the "Xbox DVD receiver and LIRC Mini HOWTO" sais about that:
<br><br>> A common reason for this to fail is a problem with lirc and devfs that results in the message:<br>><br>> devfs_register(lirc/0): could not append to parent, err: -17<br>><br>> To resolve this, change line 321 of <path/to/lirc>/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c from
<br>><br>> sprintf (name, DEV_LIRC "/%d", ir->p.minor);<br>><br>> to<br>><br>> sprintf (name, DEV_LIRC "%d", ir->p.minor);<br>><br>> and recompile lirc<br><br>Now I am curious: is this the reason why my remote doesn't work, or is
<br>it because it's not the original Microsoft remote (and receiver). And in<br>the latter case, how do I make it work?<br><br>The same message is present in Rob's dmesg file, so I was wandering<br>whether *his* remote was working. And those of you who have a working
<br>remote, do you have the above message in dmesg?<br><br>Before tossing the remote away and looking for another one, I'd like to<br>konw where the problem actually is.<br><br>--<br>Vladan Bato<br><a href="mailto:vbato@ieee.org">
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">My remote works. I am using the genuine Microsoft remote.<br>-- <br>Rob Anderson<br><a href="mailto:riznob@gmail.com">riznob@gmail.com
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