<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Jake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jakeisawake@gmail.com">jakeisawake@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> which indicates to me that /dev/lirc0 does not exist, and I'm not sure why,<br>
> or how to figure out why. Has anyone had success working with this how-to?<br>
<br>
</div>well, does the device exist? is the module loaded? i assume that<br>
you've setup the lircd.conf because i don't think the module will load<br>
properly without it. i'm on debian using the mce remote and one way<br>
to get some debug is to run lircd in nodaemon mode so it doesn't fork<br>
to the background.<br>
<br>
so, /usr/local/sbin/lircd -n --device=/dev/lirc0 should give you some<br>
debugging info. if you're installing from source then there is an<br>
lircd.conf for the mce remote in<br>
<br>
/usr/src/lirc-0.8.x/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb. i just dropped<br>
that into /etc and called it lircd.conf, loaded lirc_mceusb2 and it<br>
just worked.<br>
<br>
also lirc is crazy in that if the log file gets too big lircd will<br>
refuse to run and give some cryptic warning so you might want to look<br>
at the log file and rm if necessary...<br>
<br>
hope that helps :)<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>I'm sorry if this sounds naive, but could you elaborate on "loaded lirc_mceusb2" because I'm not sure where/how to "load" this. I assume you mean that that "lirc_mceusb2" is the configuration file that contains the button mapping, etc., but my understanding is a bit vague on that point too. Since I have a working mceusb2 remote on another system, I intend to grab the myth-specific configuration files from there, but that won't help me until I get the basics working.<br>
<br>To answer your question about whether the device exists, I must ask, in what respect? Physically, the device exists, in that I have a remote in my hand, and a usb receiver plugged into the machine, but beyond that, as far as my machine is concerned, it doesn't seem to. On my Mythbuntu/Ubuntu machines where I can make the remote work using 'automagic' tools, I have a file named "/dev/lirc0" that seems to 'be' the remote as far as the system is concerned, but this is not the case on the Debian machine I am working with (if I do a "ls /dev/l*" I get "lircd" "lircm" and a bunch of "loop*" listings, and other unrelated items). <br>
<br>Where you ask if the "module is loaded," I have to assume the answer is no, but I was hoping to learn how to make that determination more certainly. <br><br>when I try /usr/local/sbin/lircd -n --device=/dev/lirc0 as you suggest, I get:<br>
<br>BedroomFE:/home/josh# /usr/local/sbin/lircd -n --device=/dev/lirc0<br>bash: /usr/local/sbin/lircd: No such file or directory<br>BedroomFE:/home/josh# <br><br>so that's not much help. <br><br><br>I do have a "lircd.conf" file in /etc/lirc/, and it contains the only uncommented lines:<br>
<br> remote:<br>include /usr/share/lirc/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb<br><br>and the file it's pointing to does exist, and is populated with what looks like hexadecimal code which I assume describe buttons, etc. <br>
<br>Sorry if my response is less than inspiring, or leans toward annoying, but I'm just trying to work through this, and I'm simply asking the questions that come to mind. <br><br>Thanks for any help and patience.<br>
<br>Josh<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>