[mythtv-users] lirc working in mythtv but not xine?

[Mike Perkins]

On 06/04/16 02:19, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hoi Tom,
>>
>>
>>> It took me a while to figure out that I needed to set that
>>> LIRC_SOCKET_PATH in the mythtv ~/.xinitrc file...but yea that did it!
>>
>>> I find it highly strange that I had to do that however and that
>>> something there wasn't smart enough to use the default socket path.
>>> That seems just a little nuts.
>>
>>> Thanks for the help!
>>> Tom
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> There should be a simlink /dev/lircd to /var/run/lirc/lircd that as
>> far as I know is used by default. Possibly that simlink is missing or
>> wrong.
>>
>>
>> Tot mails,
>>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>
>
> Everything looks good there:
>
> ll /dev/lircd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr  5 20:37 /dev/lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircd
>
> Thanks!
> Tom
>
Um, that's the permission on the /link/. Have you done "ls /var/run/lirc/lircd"?

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Mike Perkins