<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi list,<br><br></div>I just upgraded to fedora 18. My remote won't properly work. <br><br></div>I think I understand why, but do not know how to fix it.<br><br></div>I have the following in /etc/sysconfig/lirc<br>
LIRC_DRIVER="devinput"<br>LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/input/remote"<br><br></div>/dev/input/remote is a symlink created at boot that points to /dev/input/remoteXX which is where my remote is. Here, for example, it points to /dev/input/event16<br>
<br>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Oct 23 20:22 remote -> /dev/input/event16<br><br></div>and here are the permissions for event16:<br>crw-r-----. 1 root root 13, 80 Oct 23 20:21 event16<br><br><br></div>When I do cat /dev/input/event16 as root and press any button, I get gibberish, which shows me that it is interpreting the key presses. However, when I do that for mythtv user, I get the following:<br>
<br><div><div>[mythtv@localhost ~]$ cat /dev/input/remote<br>cat: /dev/input/remote: Permission denied<br><br><br></div><div>Anyway I can fix this? <br><br></div><div>As an aside, the way I create the symlink on boot each time is by calling the following script from rc.local<br>
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#! /bin/bash<br>
/bin/rm -f /<span class="">dev</span>/<span class="">input</span>/remote<br>
/bin/ln -fs /<span class="">dev</span>/<span class="">input</span>/`cat /proc/bus/<span class="">input</span>/devices|grep -A 4<br>
<div class="im">"Hauppauge"|grep event|cut -d ' ' -f3` /<span class="">dev</span>/<span class="">input</span>/remote<br>
</div># restart lirc in case it is already running<br>
/sbin/service lirc restart<br></div></div></div>