LIRC on Mandrake 8 w/ Flyvideo98

[Robert O. <ohr...@ho...>]

I'm [unsussessfully] trying to get LIRC to work on Mandrake 8.0 with a 
Flyvideo98 TV card.

I followed the Documentation to setup, compile, make and make install the 
packages.  Afterwards I adjusted the permissions of /dev/lircd and added 
"alias char-major-61 lirc_driver" to modules.conf (I've tried ~lirc_driver 
and ~lirc_gpio).

I performed the test by starting the decoder daemon with "lircd 
/usr/local/etc/lircd.conf" and then starting "irw", which gave me the 
following program dump:
<partial snip>
0000000000000000 00 POWER FLY98
0000000000000010 00 MOUSE_MODE FLY98
0000000000000008 00 FULL_SCREEN FLY98
0000000000000009 00 CHAN_PLUS FLY98
0000000000000018 00 1 FLY98
0000000000000004 00 2 FLY98
<end partial snip>

This seems to tell me that LIRC is picking up and decoding the remote 
signals.  Next I took the .lircrc in the xawtv documentation and copied it to 
the home directory.  It looked like this:
<partial snip>
begin
         prog   = xawtv
         button = CH+
         config = setstation next
end
<end partial snip>

After that I started xawtv, and nothing when I tried using the remote.  So I 
tried a couple of other .lircrc configurations:
<partial snip>
begin
         prog   = xawtv
         remote = FLY98
         button = CHAN_PLUS
         config = setstation next
end
<end partial snip>
and I tried:
<partial snip>
begin
         prog   = xawtv
         button = CHAN_PLUS FLY98
         config = setstation next
end
<end partial snip>
I even tried the example in the documentation:
begin
	remote = FLY98
	button = CHAN_PLUS
	prog   = irexec
	repeat = 0
	config = echo "Hello world!"
end
and that wouldn't do anything either.

The sequence I go through after booting up the computer is as follows:
open console
"lircd /usr/local/etc/lircd.conf"
"irexec"
launch xawtv
-and then try the remote.
The following shows up in the log file afterwards:
lircd(fly98) ready
foo
accepted new client on /dev/lircd
could not open /dev/lirc
default_init(): No such device
caught signal

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here, or what I need to do to get it 
to work?  I would really appreciate the help.

-- 
Robert Ohrenberg
Loyal Mandrake User
Registered Linux User #173182