[mythtv-users] How to make the LIRC_DEVICE static in Fedora 16

[Anthony Giggins]

On 8 December 2011 14:48, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Anthony Giggins
> <seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 8 December 2011 11:20, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I posted some issues I was having with lirc after upgrading to Fedora
> >> 16.  I determined that the real issue was that the lirc device was
> >> changing on reboot each time, so my line in /etc/sysconfig/lirc for
> >> LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/input/event6" would not do anything unless I
> >> happened to be lucky on a reboot.  I would have to manually change
> >> this.  Complicating matter, it looked like xorg was recognizing
> >> certain of the remote keypresses as keyboard buttons so it would do
> >> some funky stuff (like try to change the gnome volume and other
> >> issues).  When I have the right entry in /etc/sysconfig/lirc, then
> >> lirc takes precedence.
> >>
> >> I tried the documentation in the wiki for making it static by adding a
> >> symlink and putting that path in the sysconfig file, but that did not
> >> help.  Can anyone offer suggestions?  I have it working and when I
> >> reboot, I can modify the file and restart xorg and lirc to get it to
> >> work, but this is a less than ideal situation in case I ever need to
> >> reboot.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >
> > You could always use
> >
> > LIRC_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-id/usb-15c2_0036-event-mouse" or where ever
> > /dev/input/event6 actually points too if you know the usb id
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Anthony
>
> Anthony,
>
> Can you let me know how to figure out where that points to?  Here is
> the output from lspci -v:
> Here is what lspci -v
> reports about the PVR-350 card, which has my IR receiver:
> 03:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
> MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>       Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
>       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
>       Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>       Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>       Kernel driver in use: ivtv
> _______________________________________________
>
>
try

ls -al /dev/input/by-id/

and/or

ls -al /dev/input/by-path/

the one you want should be symlinked to  event6

Anthony
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