[mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

Steve G stgarf at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 20:06:20 UTC 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marius Schrecker [mailto:marius at schrecker.org]
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 6:26 AM
> To: Steve ; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help
> 
> > Sooo can anyone help me?
> >
> > On 10/1/05, Steve G <stgarf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > -----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...
> 
> udev will probably help you later, if you can figure ouot how to set up
> rules for it, I'm afraid I can't help you there.
> 
> First I think you should try to ascertain if your /dev/lirc should be
> symlinked to anything else.  Make a note of the node major and minor
> numbers so you can recreate it later:
> 
> #ls -la /dev |grep lirc
When I do this it only shows me /dev/lircd


> then try linking to your usb hid devices in turn and seeing if you can
> capture ir activity:
> 
> 
> # ln -s /dev/usb/hiddev0 (for example) /dev/lirc
I don't have any /dev/usb* or /dev/usb/*... Which is probably why this isn't
working.

Other than that... Yea still doesn't work.



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