[mythtv-users] More LIRC Woes

[Scott Nicholson]

I'm still not sure if my homebrew IR Transceiver is working or not... I've
torn it apart and rebuilt it a few time, most recently following a
step-by-step that was pointed out in the "IR Frustration" thread. I've
checked and re-checked to make sure it's assembled correctly, and everything
appears to be good.

I'm using the lircd 0.7.0pre2 compiled from source.

There's nothing in /var/log/lircd to indicate any problems, and all lirc
tools (irw, irrecord, irsend, etc) seem to run okay, apart from the fact
that they don't send or receive any signals.

dmesg gives some errors, though, when I modprobe lirc_serial. Here's the
complete output:

lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0
_devfs_append_entry(0): dir: "lirc" is not a directory
devfs_register(lirc/0): could not append to parent, err: -20

I don't know much about devfs, but it appears that lirc_dev is trying to
create an entry /dev/lirc/0 but is unable to, because /dev/lirc already
exists and is not a directory.

/dev/lirc was created (using mknod) when I did "make install".

Have I done something wrong in configuring or compiling lirc? Or is this a
bug? Would I be better off using an earlier version?

(I'm running Gentoo)

TIA For any help.
Scott

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