<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mickey Chandler</b> <<a href="mailto:mickc@whizardries.com">mickc@whizardries.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 04:55 PM 11/9/2005, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:<br>>I just bought one of those packard bell remote cheap off ebay. I'm<br>>having a problem getting it to work. Here is the output if i run irw:<br>><br>>root@mythtvbox2
:~# lircd --nodaemon<br>>lircd 0.7.2: lircd(serial) ready<br>>lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd<br>>lircd 0.7.2: could not get hardware features<br>>lircd 0.7.2: this device driver does not support the new LIRC interface
<br>>lircd 0.7.2: major number of /dev/lirc is 4<br>>lircd 0.7.2: LIRC major number is 61<br>>lircd 0.7.2: check if /dev/lirc is a LIRC device<br>>lircd 0.7.2: caught signal<br>>Terminated<br>><br>>(I have also install lirc with the packard bell option so the second
<br>>line has that instead of (serial) but both do the same thing)<br>>I do have ln /dev/ttyS0 /dev/lirc<br>>I also have linked S1 to lirc0 and ran lircd with the device option<br>>to lirc0. Can anyone help?<br>
<br>First, get rid of the symbolic links. Then try using:<br><br>lircd --device=/dev/ttyS0 --nodaemon</blockquote><div><br>
Only problem with that is that the serial driver expects to be talking to lirc_serial, not a normal serial port.<br>
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Carl Fongheiser<br>
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