Re: /dev/lirc(d)? no luck so far

[Shaul K. <sha...@ya...>]

Simon,
 Try -d /dev/lirc/0 (or /dev/lircd/0, if there is one)

Shaul

--- Simon Cooper <th...@ru...> wrote:
> OK, ive been trying to get lirc working with no
> luck, heres what ive tried so far -
> 
> lirc version 0.7.0_pre4
> kernel version 2.6.5_love2 (gentoo patchset)
> 
> the bios says the sir is on COM1. modprobe lirc_dev
> and lirc_sir gives the following in dmesg:
> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at
> major 61 
> lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0
> lirc_sir: I/O port 0x03f8, IRQ 4.
> enable_irq(4) unbalanced from e193db10
> lirc_sir: Installed.
> 
> staring lircd as a daemon produces /dev/lircd (NOT
> /dev/lirc), but trying to run mode2 -d /dev/lircd
> gives:
> mode2: error opening /dev/lircd
> mode2: No such device or address
> 
> and running lircd --nodaemon and trying to connect
> irw to it produces the following output from lircd:
> lircd 0.7.0pre4[10641]: config file contains no
> valid remote control definition
> lircd 0.7.0pre4[10641]: lircd(serial) ready
> lircd 0.7.0pre4[10641]: accepted new client on
> /dev/lircd
> lircd 0.7.0pre4[10641]: could not get file
> information for /dev/lirc
> lircd 0.7.0pre4[10641]: default_init(): No such file
> or directory
> lircd 0.7.0pre4[10641]: caught signal
> Terminated
> 
> and irw just exits to the command prompt.
> It looks like /dev/lirc is meant to exist, but I
> cant work out what is meant to create it. What am i
> missing here?
> 
> Simon Cooper
> 
> 
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