Thanks Rage321,<br> I had actually just figured out that I had screwed up and was signed in as root when I started mythtv.<br> I had just installed mythdora on the laptop and for some reason X wasn't starting automatically, so....<br> I copied the file over to the root/mythtv folder and everything worked great.<br> Thanks everyone for your help.<br> <br> <br><br><b><i>Rage321 <rage321@optonline.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name="GENERATOR"> <div align="left" dir="ltr"><span class="546575700-12052007"><font face="Arial" size="2">I want to verify that you are logged on as mythtv and ~/.mythtv is actually /home/mythtv/.mythtv?</font></span></div> <div align="left" dir="ltr"><span class="546575700-12052007"><font face="Arial"
size="2"></font></span> </div> <div align="left" dir="ltr"><span class="546575700-12052007"><font face="Arial" size="2">Have you run mythfrontend -w from a console to see if the lircrc file, which should be in your /home/mythtv/.mythtv, is being read ok?</font> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">If you see the following...</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">mythtv: could not open config file /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc<br>mythtv: No such file or directory<br>Failed to read lirc config /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc for mythtv<br>Joystick disabled.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">...then you've found your problem.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">If you see just...</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Joystick disabled.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">...with no mention of lircrc, then something else is up<span class="546575700-12052007">.</span></font></font></div></span></div><br> <div
class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left" dir="ltr" lang="en-us"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Phillips<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 11, 2007 9:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion about mythtv<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] help with HP-philip's remote please<br></font><br></div> <div></div>Hi Chad,<br>Thanks but there already was a lircrc file at <br>~/.mythtv/lircrc<br><br>There wasn't one at /etc/<br>I also tried copying the file to /etc with no luck.<br>Any other ideas?<br>Dave<br><b><i>Chad <masterclc@gmail.com></i></b> wrote: <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">On 5/10/07, Dave Phillips <FAMILY_OF_PHILLIPS @yahoo.com="">wrote:<br>> I have an hp mce remote.<br>> My system, mythdora 4.0 at the moment, seems to correctly
find it and load<br>> the drivers.<br>> I have run irrecord and it captures everything and seems quite happy.<br>> I have also run irw and it is also happy<br>> reporting<br>> 000000037ff07be1 00 Up mceusb<br>> when I press up on the remote.<br>> But for some reason the remote doesn't do anything in myth.<br>> The ir receiver flashes when I press buttons but nothing changes on<br>> mythfrontend.<br>> Is there something basic I am not understanding?<br>> my /etc/lircd.conf file seems to be the correct one.<br>><br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Dave<br><br>Hi Dave,<br><br>ln -s /etc/lircrc ~/.mythtv/lircrc<br><br>-Chad<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></FAMILY_OF_PHILLIPS></blockquote><br> <div> </div><hr size="1"> TV dinner still cooling?<br><a
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