[mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

[Steve G]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker
> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
> 
> > Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you set the access
> rights
> > on the lirc* devices ?
> >
> > Niels Dybdahl
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Steve
> >   To: Discussion about mythtv
> >   Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:39 AM
> >   Subject: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
> >
> >
> >   A friend of mine gave me an "ATI Remote Wonder" remote and usb
> receiver.
> > From my understanding it is a RF setup here, not an IR setup.
> >   I am running gentoo, so someone told me I needed to emerge lirc when I
> > have LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=atiusb" in my make.conf. So I did "#
> > emerge unmerge lirc" and then I did "emerge --newuse lirc". The problem
> > I have is I start lircd by doing "# lircd -n" It says whatever it
> > says... then I log in to another terminal as a normal user and do "$
> > irw". This just brings me back to "$ " and causes the "# lircd -n" that
> > I ran to crash whilst complaining about not finding /dev/lirc.
> >
> >   Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> This sounds very much like the problem I had with my usb receiver.
> 
> What are you getting in /var/log/messages when you start lircd?
	Oct  1 12:32:55 MythTv lircd-0.7.2[21570]: lircd(atiusb) ready
When I start irw and go back to the console I started "lircd -n" on I see
this:
	MythTV ~ # lircd -n
	lircd-0.7.2[21632]: lircd(atiusb) ready
	lircd-0.7.2[21632]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
	lircd-0.7.2[21632]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
	lircd-0.7.2[21632]: default_init(): No such file or directory
	lircd-0.7.2[21632]: caught signal
	Terminated
	MythTV ~ #

> I had to symlink my /dev/lirc node to /dev/usb/hiddev0 (your usb device
> may well be different).
I'm not sure where my USB device is... I've tried various ls's in /dev to
find it to no avail. But I gather this much from what you're saying: "# ln
-s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc" or am I way off?

> If the driver needs a module has this been built and installed, and does
> it load?
I'm not sure what you mean here, but I have built lirc with "atiusb" in the
LIRC_OPTS in my make.conf.

> Are you running udev? This should take care of your /dev node mappings for
> you. Unfortunately I can't on my system.

Yea, I do have udev...



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