[mythtv-users] LIRC gpio "could not reset tty"

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 20:17 US/Pacific, Martin Brown wrote:

> I'm unable to start lircd.  Keep getting this error message.
>
> I've seen posts saying to open the permissions on /dev/lirc*. I've 
> done that but
> still get this message from lircd (running as root). After a clean 
> boot,
> manually loading lirc_gpio module, start lircd by hand so I can't see 
> how the
> device could have been claimed by some other process.
>
> Relevant /dev entries are:
>
> crw-rw-rw- /dev/lirc
> srw-rw-rw- /dev/lircd
> prw-rw-rw- /dev/lircm
>
> RedHat9, Leadtek Winfast 2000 XP tuner with remote socket on the card.

Huh. The tty error would lead me to believe /dev/lirc is actually a 
symlink to /dev/ttyS0, while it should actually be a character device 
for lirc_gpio, but the dev entries you have above show it as a 
character device...

--Jarod

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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