[mythtv-users] lirc and irrecord die with: irman_init(): Unknown error 4294967293

[Justin Hornsby]

Ali Asad Lotia wrote:
> Hello All,
> I know that this may be OT, but I've seen other lirc related posts on
> this list and am sufficiently desperate. Please accept my apologies if
> this is OT enough to be annoying. I initially posted this to the lirc
> list, but have not received a response yet and am hoping that a fellow
> mythtv user may have seen something similar and fixed it.
> 
> I am currently trying to set up lirc with a IRA-3 receiver that i
> purchased from Home Electronics
> (http://www.home-electro.com/ira3.php). The receiver is hooked up to
> serial port 1 (ttyS0) and when I cat /dev/ttyS0, i can see it print
> output to the screen when I send it commands from a Radio Shack
> 15-2116 remote control.
> 
> I have installed libirman-0.4.3, which I compiled from source after
> applying the patch for IRA-3 devices that Pratap Pereira release on
> this list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10826076).
> I am running Gentoo and the kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r9. The serial
> driver is compiled into the kernel. I installed lirc-0.7.2 using the
> Gentoo ebuild and did pass options to build the irman driver when
> installing.
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Well, why not try doing what the LIRC documentation recommends and take 
the serial port drivers out of the kernel... if the system is already 
allocating /dev/ttyS0, then LIRC can't use it.