[mythtv-users] lirc_imon patch

[Ben Lancaster]

On 8 Jun 2006, at 20:55, Simon Kenyon wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 03:20, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> For those of you with IMON remotes like that come with the  
>> Silverstone
>> LC-16, I've placed the latest version of the patch that lets you use
>> the mouse area as a directional pad that has been posted on the venky
>> forum up at:
>> http://www.jobs-khakis-chicks.com/MythTV/lirc-imon/
>>
>> it patches against the lirc-0.8.0 tarball.
>
> i have an alternative lirc_imon.c which i like
> it allows the remote to act both as a pad and as a mouse
> i include it and the corresponding lircd.conf file (for those that are
> interested)
> the mode is flipped by the keyboard/mouse button on the remote
> it creates a new mouse device
>
> regards
> --
> simon

Hey, thanks.

Now if only I could get lirc to work! Compiled with the imon_pad  
drivers after applying both patches. /var/log/messages contains:

Jun  8 22:49:50 benlancaster lircd-0.8.0[4454]: lircd(userspace) ready

...immediately after launching lirc with "lircd -d default". Then,  
when launching irw, it bails silently. /var/log/messages says:

Jun  8 22:51:52 benlancaster lircd-0.8.0[4454]: accepted new client  
on /dev/lircd
Jun  8 22:51:52 benlancaster lircd-0.8.0[4454]: could not get file  
information for default
Jun  8 22:51:52 benlancaster lircd-0.8.0[4454]: default_init(): No  
such file or directory
Jun  8 22:51:52 benlancaster lircd-0.8.0[4454]: caught signal

Now, I'm guessing this is something to do with me not having a /dev/ 
lirc device! So, how do I create it?

Some debugging info:

# lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_imon              49284  0
lirc_dev               49768  1 lirc_imon

# lircd --version
lircd 0.8.0

# uname -a
Linux xxx 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 #1 SMP Sun May 21 15:01:10 EDT 2006  
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep lirc
alias char-major-61 lirc_imon

Thanks!

Ben