[mythtv-users] Disable TurboSight IR driver ?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Robin,

Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 12:43:02 AM, you wrote:

> Gosh - what a game!!

> The latest problem is that the turbosight drivers for their PCIe DVB cards
> include an IR receiver driver. This is great until, like me, you want to
> use an IR blaster - in this case a trusty old mceusb device.

> At powerup, there is a race as to which /dev/lircX device gets allocated
> to what such that the wrong choice in the lircd setup means no blaster.

> Does anyone know of a way to turn off the IR drivers from TBS and just
> have the one - that way I'll be certain I'm trying to send to the correct
> device.

> Cheers

Most of the time the same module is managing both ir and dvb, so that
is tricky. You can however use udev to create a consistent name for
your blaster. If you give the output of:
udevadm info --attribute-walk path --name=/dev/lirc?
I can give you an idea for a rule.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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