lircd: could not open /dev/lirc

[R B <for...@ya...>]

I have a Compaq Armada laptop with a built-in IR port.

The Compaq BIOS setup utility indicates the following as Enabled:
"Generic FAST INFRARED PORT"
IRQ 4
I/O Range  0x03E8-0x03EF


This laptop is running Fedora Core 4.  So "uname -a" says:
Linux fc4lt1 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:41:12 EDT 2006 



This is a section from "dmesg":
....
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
....


I have downloaded and installed lirc-0.8.2



After running "setup.sh" the "lirc-0.8.2/.setup.config" file contains:
LIRC_DRIVER=sir
LIRC_PORT=0x3e8
LIRC_IRQ=4
LIRC_MAJOR=61
IRTTY=none
DRIVER_PARAM_TYPE=com
DRIVER_PARAMETER=com3
SOFT_CARRIER=on
TRANSMITTER=on
IGOR=off
TIMER=65536
X11_WINDOWS=on
DEBUG=off
NO_DAEMONIZE=off
NO_LONG_CODES=off
USE_SYSLOG=off
DYNCODES=off



Then I did a reboot.


To get things going, I copied a config file from one of the remotes at:
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/
to "/etc/lircd.conf"



I created a new entry:
mknod /dev/lirc c 61 2



Checking for the lirc files in /dev
ls -al /dev/li*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 61, 2 Jun 16 01:41 /dev/lirc
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Jun 16 01:44 /dev/lircd



The "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file:

#!/bin/sh
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/sbin/modprobe lirc_sir
/usr/local/sbin/lircd



To start lircd:
/usr/local/sbin/lircd



To see if lircd is running:
ps aux | grep lir
root     10827  0.0  0.5   1572   544 tty5     S+   00:25   0:00 /usr/local/sbin/lircd 
root     10888  0.0  0.7   3712   660 pts/4    S+   00:32   0:00 grep lir


First the "/var/log/lircd" contains:
Jun 17 00:17:06 fc4lt1 lircd: lircd(sir) ready


So, I did a test with:
irsend  LIST "" ""

Nothing happens.  I get the command line again.



Now the "/var/log/lircd" contains:
Jun 17 00:17:06 fc4lt1 lircd: lircd(sir) ready
Jun 17 00:21:19 fc4lt1 lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Jun 17 00:21:19 fc4lt1 lircd: could not open /dev/lirc
Jun 17 00:21:19 fc4lt1 lircd: default_init(): No such device
Jun 17 00:21:19 fc4lt1 lircd: caught signal



Of course, lircd is not running any more:
ps aux | grep lir
root     10906  1.0  0.7   3716   660 pts/4    R+   00:36   0:00 grep lir




"lsmod" says:

Module                  Size  Used by
lirc_dev               16416  0
ipv6                  248513  18
parport_pc             28461  1
lp                     13185  0
parport                37897  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                22085  1
rfcomm                 37845  0
l2cap                  24385  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              48933  4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                162917  1
dm_mod                 61269  0
uhci_hcd               24525  0
i2c_piix4               9425  0
i2c_core               22721  1 i2c_piix4
3c589_cs               13637  1
floppy                 61373  0
ext3                  135881  1
jbd                    60373  1 ext3





So why does it say...
.... lircd: could not open /dev/lirc
.... lircd: default_init(): No such device


"/dev/lirc" and "/dev/lircd" still exist.



What did I do wrong?
Did I miss something?










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