[mythtv-users] Problem with lirc

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 5, 2006, at 5:13 PM, James Oltman wrote:

> I am having some issues with lirc.  I am trying to follow Jarod's  
> guide for FC4.  I have the MCE USB 2 receiver and remote.  I copied  
> the lircd.conf to /etc/lircd.conf and then I found an lircrc on  
> gossamer threads somewhere.  I made a file called .lircrc in /home/ 
> mythtv/ directory.  When I tried to create an lircrc in /home/ 
> mythtv/.mythtv I get an error when exiting out of of vi saying it  
> couldn't write the file.  What am I doing wrong?  I can run IRW and  
> get output when I push the buttons.  MythTV an xine aren't  
> responding to any keypresses of the remote.  Hopefully, someone can  
> help me tonight as I'd like to get this working before the GF comes  
> home.  Here are my current specs:
>
Nice to see a vi user :-)

if vi can't write the file it is usually a permissions problem, check  
out the permissions of the directory you want to write in vs. the  
user you are running vi as.