[mythtv-users] Lirc woes on Edgy Eft [SOLVED]

[Dave M G]

Nick,

Thank you for responding.

> ...you may want a symlink between /dev/lirc and /dev/lirc0 (this
> is the most common device problem I've seen)
>   
Yes, this is exactly what the problem turned out to be.

For the sake of completeness in the archives, in case others come across 
this trouble, here is what I did:

I tried changing permissions on /dev/lirc, but that made no difference.

Then I made a symlink from lirc0 to lirc in the dev directory, then 
restarted the daemon. Dmesg still reported the same error as before.

However, this time I checked /var/syslog, and it said:
could not open /dev/lirc0
default_init(): No such device

So maybe just adding the symlink and restarting the daemon was not good 
enough. Not knowing what else to do, I rebooted.

When I was logged back in, I typed in "irw", and now I can see signals 
from my remote! Dmesg also shows the lirc module being correctly loaded, 
with no errors.

Thank you for that advice. You hit the nail on the head.

-- 
Dave M G
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
Pentium D Dual Core Processor