[mythtv-users] Re: Lirc and Mythtv (Hauppauge Gray Remote)

[Aleaxander]

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> 
> Ah, that would be an error on my part. It should be telling you to look 
> in /var/log/messages like it does in the bttv-lirc section. Whoops. :-\
> 
>> Like I said in my original mail, Lirc was working until I setup NFS on 
>> the backend server and mounted the video and tv directories there on 
>> this machine.  Do you think this could have something to do with my 
>> problem?
> 
> 
> It *shouldn't*, but...
> 
>> If you have any other suggestions for approaches to debugging this 
>> problem I would, again, very much appreciate it.
> 
> 
> See if there's anything in /var/log/messages that is telling (cat 
> /var/log/messages |grep lirc).
> 
Okay, it is clear that something is going wrong when I start up.  Here
are the Lirc related /var/log/messages.
---from log file---
Feb 12 22:44:11 myth2 lircd 0.7.0pre1[6850]: lircd(any) ready
Feb 12 22:44:11 myth2 lircd: lircd startup succeeded
Feb 12 22:44:55 myth2 lircd 0.7.0pre1[6850]: accepted new client on
/dev/lircd
Feb 12 22:44:55 myth2 kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver
registered, at major 61
Feb 12 22:44:55 myth2 lircd 0.7.0pre1[6850]: could not open /dev/lirc
Feb 12 22:44:55 myth2 lircd 0.7.0pre1[6850]: default_init(): No such device
Feb 12 22:44:55 myth2 lircd 0.7.0pre1[6850]: caught signal
---end log file---

I did a search on google, and there were a few pages (mostly discussion
groups based on older version of lirc) where people posted similar error
messages, but I'm afraid I've hit a dead end except that it seems that
the "could not open /dev/lirc" is refering to a file and that lirc
doesn't know which device to use.  A search on my working computer
turned up the fact that there is a .lircrc in the home directory
(/home/mythtv) that does not exist on the system that is not working.
Copying the .lircrc file over to the non-working system did not work,
and the lircrc (not .lircrc) file does exist in the .mythtv directory on
both systems.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Alex