[mythtv-users] noob remote question

Asher Schaffer freedenizen at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 22:13:39 UTC 2005


On 8/22/05, Robert D. Mathews <geoflyer at centurytel.net> wrote:
> I have slogged through many how-to's and with wilsons guide and have
> gotten myself a working mythtv setup. happage 150, fedora core3 etc. I
> know i may  be missing something in the doc's, but everything works with
> the exception of the remote. this too will work so long as i am logged
> in as root. Is there some way to get the frontend to start as root while
> logged in as user? will i always have to be logged in as root to get
> this to function?

What are the permissions on /dev/lircd ?  Make sure all has rw
permission, or make an a group, add the user to that group, chgrp
/dev/lircd, and give the group rw permissions.


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