[mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

[Jim Oltman]

Can someone tell me what this means in my /var/log/messages?

Mar 13 17:03:08 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4135]: accepted new client on
/dev/lircd
Mar 13 17:03:08 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4135]: could not get file
information for /dev/lirc
Mar 13 17:03:08 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4135]: default_init(): No
such file or directory
Mar 13 17:03:08 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4135]: caught signal



On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:37:28 -0600, Jim Oltman <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well it didn't work.  When I do a cat /var/log/messages | grep usb I get this:
> 
> Mar 13 15:21:18 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> Mar 13 15:21:18 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
> Mar 13 15:21:21 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> Mar 13 15:21:21 mythfrontend kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> Mar 13 15:21:21 mythfrontend kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c:
> v2.0:USB HID core driver
> Mar 13 15:21:21 mythfrontend kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB
> device using ohci_hcd and address 2
> 
> At one point, I actually got the usb3-2 to attach to a device I made
> called /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing after that.  Here is my modprobe.conf:
> 
> alias eth0 sk98lin
> alias eth1 forcedeth
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
> }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
> # nvidia kernel module
> alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6629
> 
> # LIRC Setup
> alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb
> #Per Jared's instructions
> 
> #alias char-major-188-0 usbserial
> #options usbserial vendor=0x0471 product=0x0815
> #alias ttyUSB0 lirc_mceusb
> #install lirc_mceusb /sbin/modprobe lirc
> #  /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_mceusb
> 
> There has got to be a way to get this working.  Any ideas?  Can I
> provide anymore information?
>