lircd: could not get file information for /dev/lirc

[Hans H. A. <han...@gm...>]

Hi

I have been browsing the Internet for a solution to this problem. I have
observed A LOT of people having the same problem asking this question but I
have never seen it answered.

I have been following this guide:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_Installation#5.0_LIRC
And it runs smoothly until i am supposed to write irw.
Instead a showing a blank line it just exits. If I check the lircd daemon i=
t
has been interrupted:

root@eruantalon:/home/hans # lircd -n
lircd: lircd(hauppauge) ready
lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
lircd: default_init(): No such file or directory
lircd: caught signal
Termineret
root@eruantalon:/home/hans #



I have tried googling for "no such device" lircd and other things but I onl=
y
run into other people who are having the same problem as I am. This guy
claims that he solved his problem by making a symbolic link like this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=3D345414&highlight=
=3Dlircd+no+such+device

ln -s /dev/lirc /dev/lircd

When I first installed lirc there was something called /dev/lirc but after
restarting it went away. Now all I have is /dev/lircd which I guess is not
the same.

My setup is the following:
Kubuntu Breezy Badger
Linux version 2.6.12-10-686
lirc 8.0
I have just bought a winTV-PVR-150 MCE kit with remote
The remote sends to little box that is connected to my computer via a
USB-cable.

I'd be happy to supply any information you would require to help me and the
many other who suffer from this problem.
I have been looking through the past list and it seems that people have bee=
n
having this problem for years. About time we cleaned it up. Don't you think=
?

Regards Hans Harhoff Andersen

ps. This is my personal server. This is were I will post any and all of the
information which you deem relevant so as to have one place to go to to hel=
p
me :-)
http://coops2.homelinux.net/wiki/index.php/Lirc