I need help installing and configuring lirc on a new Fedora Core 4
system using a Streamzap remote. The system is an AMD64 box. <br>
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I've been following Jorad's wonderful Myth TV on Fedora HOW TO document. Thank you, Jarod!<br>
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Everything has worked great until I tried to implement lirc with
Streamzap drivers. After I installed lirc using yum as directed,
I tried to do a modprobe litc_streamzap and go a fatal error saying
that driver was unknown.<br>
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So I did a "yum remove lirc", followed by a "yum remove lirc-kmdl-$KVER". <br>
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Then I downloaded the lirc-0.8.0 tarball from <a href="http://lirc.org">lirc.org</a>. After
extracting, I ran setup.sh and selected the Streamzap remote, then ran
configure, make and make install.<br>
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Next I ran "chmod 666 /dev/lir*".<br>
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Then I ran "modprobe lirc_streamzap" followed by "modprobe
"lirc_dev". (The <a href="http://lirc.org">lirc.org</a> documentation says I need both drivers.)<br>
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Next I edited /etc/modprobe.conf and inserted the line "alias char-major-61 lirc_streamzap" at the end of the file.<br>
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Everything seemed good so far. No error messages.<br>
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Next, I ran "/sbin/service lircd start" and received error message "lircd: unrecognized service".<br>
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Undeterred, I tried "mode2", which told me: <br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">mode2: error opening /dev/lirc<br>
mode2: No such device<br>
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I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Same results.<br>
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"/sbin/modprobe -l | grep lirc" shows:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/misc/lirc_streamzap.ko<br>
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/misc/lirc_dev.ko<br>
</div>
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"/sbin/lsmod | grep lirc" tell me:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">lirc_streamzap 49540 0<br>
lirc_dev 50656 1 lirc_streamzap<br>
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"dmesg | grep lirc" gives me:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61<br>
usbcore: registered new driver lirc_streamzap<br>
lirc_streamzap $Revision: 1.15 $ registered<br>
</div>
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"ls -l /dev/lir*" shows:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 61, 0 Feb 22 20:23 /dev/lirc<br>
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 22 06:10 /dev/lircd<br>
prw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 22 06:07 /dev/lircm<br>
</div>
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I been fighting this for many days. I've read boatloads of posts
about lirc and tried everything that seemed related; but nothing has
changed the mode2 error message. If I could get mode2 to
run, I am sure I could fix the mssing sbin directory entry and run irw
successfully.<br>
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Help please! <br>
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