Re: Ready to give up on lirc

[Hal <sou...@ha...>]

> Ok then, lets back up a bit.
> Clean boot, do nothing (but let the system load modules and udev do 
> its bit, what do you find in /dev


I'm still loading modules from the command line for troubleshooting 
purposes, but having done that...

> You should have:
>
> /dev/lircd    and, if I follow you,

/dev/lircd gets created by lircd, which I'm not getting to yet.  Still 
trying to get output from mode2.  So no, /dev/lircd does not exist.

> /dev/lirc/0
> /dev/lirc (as symlinlk from /dev/lirc/0


/dev/lirc is a directory entry, so the character device is at /dev/lirc0 
-> /dev/lirc/0.

> If you do not have a /dev/lircd  which sounds like the case, to me, 
> then no wonder mode2 will not work. If you have no /dev/lircd then I 
> would *guess* that your options are wrong, or the module does not or 
> cannot grab the serial port.


This presents a chicken-and-egg problem.  /dev/lircd is created by 
running lircd, but lircd shouldn't be run simultaneously with mode2.  
(Actually, they  *will* both run without complaint.  But I still don't 
get output from mode2.)

/dev/lircd, when it exists, is a socket.  mode2 reads from a character 
device.  Are you sure about that dependency?


Hal