[mythtv-users] lirc stopped working

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Mon Mar 1 16:02:22 EST 2004


On Monday 01 March 2004 10:43, Adam Felson wrote:
> I have lirc compiled for "native support".
> At some point of my activities to get tvout working, lirc has stopped
> working.
>
> I have a streamzap usb remote and patched lirc-0.7.0pre2 sources.
> I've removed all traces of the old lirc that came with mandrake.
> the sources are compiled and installed;  lircd runs and irw gets
> remote keys.  ~/.mythtv/lircrc has the same stuff that worked before.
> irxevent isn't running.
> /dev/lirc/0 is the streamzap device, and the device node is supplied
> by the usbdevfs.  /dev/lirc0 is a link to it created in hope of
> making things work
>
> However, mythfrontend starts with:
> $ mythfrontend
> 2004-03-01 08:37:31 mythfrontend version: 0.14.20040123-1
> www.mythtv.org 2004-03-01 08:37:31 Enabled verbose msgs : important
> general mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 2004-03-01 08:37:33 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2004-03-01 08:37:34 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
> handler
>
>
> What is this "socket" that myth can't connect to?
> What is this file or directory that myth can't find?
> How can I find out why myth's native lirc is failing?

Is lircd running?

-JAC


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