Re: Pulling my hair out over "could not open /dev/lirc" and "default_init(): No such device"

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Still a no-go. I uninstalled lirc 0.7.0 and deleted /dev/lirc*. I then
used rpm and installed lirc-0.7.0-38_pre7.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm and
kernel-module-lirc-2.6.8-1.521-0.7.0-38_pre7.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm. \dev\lirc
had been created and \dev\lircd was created when I ran lircd. I set the
permissions on both \dev\lirc and \dev\lircd to 666 and still had the
exact same promblem.

Thanks,
Jason

> Have you tried 0.7.0-pre7? The packages are still around. Some people
> report success with them, where 0.7.0-pre8 and final are failing. I
> find it hard to believe, but in any case I kept the old rpms around.
>
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:09:54AM -0800, Jason wrote:
>> I am pulling my hair out trying to get my homebrew-style serial
>> transmitter working. No matter what, whenever I try to run irsend,
>> lircd terminates after stating it could not open /dev/lirc. I have
>> tried using -d /dev/lirc/0 and that does no good since /dev/lirc is not
>> a directory and therefore /dev/lirc/0 does not exist. I have been
>> through the mailing list archives and been google-ing all night long
>> and have found many instances of this problem, but no solutions that
>> work for me. I'm running Fedora Core 2 and primarily use this box for
>> MythTV. I have tried using the ATRPMS Lirc package and since then have
>> been working with a fresh compile of 0.7.0. Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> dmesg |grep lirc* gives:
>>
>> lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
>>
>>
>> Lirc in /dev:
>>
>> [root@mythtv mythtv]# ls -al /dev/lirc*
>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 61, 0 Dec  6 00:47 /dev/lirc
>> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Dec  6 01:06 /dev/lircd
>> prw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Dec  6 00:48 /dev/lircm
>>
>>
>> Output of lircd when I try irsend:
>>
>> [root@mythtv mythtv]# /usr/local/sbin/lircd -n
>> lircd 0.7.0: lircd(serial) ready
>> lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>> lircd 0.7.0: could not open /dev/lirc
>> lircd 0.7.0: default_init(): No such device
>> lircd 0.7.0: caught signal
>> Terminated
>>
>> My modprobe.conf:
>>
>> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
>> alias eth0 b44
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>> install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
>> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
>> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>> alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
>> # ivtv modules setup
>> alias char-major-81 videodev
>> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>> options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=2
>> options msp3400 once=0 simpler=1 simple=0
>> # install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
>> lirc_i2c
>> alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
>> # Module for IR out
>> alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
>> options lirc_serial irq=3 io=0x02f8
>> install lirc_serial  /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
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> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
>