[mythtv-users] Continuing the lirc Fedora14 issue with PVR350

[Jarod Wilson]

On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:28 PM, The Walters wrote:

> >> I restart lirc and then check irw but still no luck.  I have lircd.conf in /etc/lirc/ and my .lircrc file in the .mythtv folder.
> 
> >> Do i also need to set the LIRC_DEVICE? (I think the virtual device is what I need.  I saw in my searching that this is probably /dev/input/event7?)
> 
> 
> >Yes, you need to set LIRC_DEVICE to /dev/input/eventX that matches the
> >device created by ir-kbd-i2c (cat /proc/bus/input/devices to see which
> >one it has -- look at the H: Handlers= line).
> 
> >And you also need the devinput lircd.conf, not the Hauppauge one. You'll
> >be mapping input layer scancodes now, not rc5 IR signals.
> 
> I was just reading a post you made back on 3-31-2010 about that and have done so.
> 
> I added LIRC_MODULE="ir-kbd-i2c" to /etc/sysconfig/lirc but the ir-kbd-i2c doesn't get loaded so i end up with
> lircd-0.9.0-pre1[1569]: unable to open '/dev/input/event7'
> 
> Is this the right place to load the module?

No. The Fedora lirc initscript has no facilities for loading modules.
That's typically done by a shell script in /etc/sysconfig/modules/. I've
toyed with the idea of adding something that does tie into the lirc
config for it, but haven't done anything material about it yet.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com