<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Mitch Gore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mitchell.gore@gmail.com">mitchell.gore@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;">
Hi,<br><br>i have a homebrew serial ir receiver. I am having a hard time getting my reciever to work in ubuntu. fedora was a snap but ubuntu not so. I have yet to find some clear instructions on how to do this. wiki was really messy and wasnt matching my files. maybe old version.<br>
<br>so, can someone give me some help, plz.<br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Mitchell<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>Anyone?<br clear="all"><br>here is some more info:<br>mitchell@0013d477b961:~$ sudo lircd -n <br>lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: lircd(default) ready<br>lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd<br>
lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc<br>lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: default_init(): No such file or directory<br>lircd-0.8.4a[2828]: Failed to initialize hardware<br>^Clircd-0.8.4a[2828]: caught signal<br>
<br>~dmesg~<br>[ 18.481525] lp: driver loaded but no devices found<br>[ 23.263673] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61 <br>[ 23.796053] lirc_serial: auto-detected active low receiver<br>[ 23.796062] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0<br>
<br>This took about 2 mins in fedora. I thought ubuntu was suppose to be easy?<br>-- <br>Mitchell<br>