[mythtv-users] Remote Control Problems!

[Larry K]

I found that after an upgrade, my (Jarod) patch was still applied to
rc.sysinit, but my lirc.rules file was empty. Once I added the line
referenced in this thread back into lirc.rules, it fixed my lirc woes.


On 3/25/05, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 25 March 2005 12:34, Heath Howard wrote:
> > I don't have /dev/lirc0. Only /dev/lircd and then /dev/lirc with the
> > symlink to lircd.
>
> That's a problem. Seems you don't have any device node for lirc to use.
> Ah,
> the joys of udev... :-\
>
> > Do I need to create /dev/lirc0 then so I can symlink /dev/lirc to it
> like
> > you have below?
>
> Hrm, it ought to be getting created automagically when your lirc module
> gets
> loaded. Such is the case on my boxes, then a udev rules file takes care of
> symlinking /dev/lirc0 to /dev/lirc.
>
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules
> KERNEL="lirc0", SYMLINK="lirc"
>
> > If so what command should I use? Should I just create a file or do I
> need
> > to use mknod to create it?
> > If so should I have used that to create /dev/lirc?
>
> Why you aren't seeing a device created, I dunno... lirc_gpio definitely
> needs
> a device node. Alternatively, you can just 'mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0'. Then
> also 'mknod /etc/udev/devices/lirc c 61 0' so that it'll get recreated on
> reboot.
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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