[mythtv-users] Lirc - Still No Go

[Sam Varshavchik]

James Kaufman writes:

> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: default_init(): No such file or directory
> Apr 13 18:59:12 mythtvbe lircd-0.8.1-CVS[4538]: caught signal
> 
> I couldn't find any device naemd /dev/lirc, so I tried creating it by
> hand and got the exact same error message.

If /dev/lirc0 (not /dev/lirc) isn't there, it means that the lirc kernel 
modules are not loaded.

What distro are you on?  If Fedora, the 0.7 lirc build in Fedora Extras is 
utterly broken, and cannot be used.  It does not build or install the 
necessary kernel modules.

Hopefully you have a good version of lirc built and installed, you just 
forgot to load the kernel module:

modprobe lirc_i2c

And, hopefully, you'll get a bunch of junk in /var/log/messages, that ends 
with something like this:

Apr  2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
Apr  2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=Hauppauge IR, addr]
Apr  2 10:06:57 lazarus kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10

After which, you should have /dev/lirc0 (not /dev/lirc).

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