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

[Nick <kno...@gm...>]

On 02/02/06, Hans Harhoff Andersen <han...@gm...> wrote:
> 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=
 it
> 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

Do you have a /dev/lirc0 device created instead? If you do then create
a symlink from this to /dev/lirc (or start lircd with the option
'--device=3D/dev/lirc0'). If not, your LIRC drivers may not be loaded
fully - what is the output of 'lsmod| grep lirc'?

Nick