help with LIRC configuration

[Rui F. <ru...@ru...>]

Hi Does anyone have any suggestions on this issue?

Thanks,
-Rui

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Rui Fernandes <ru...@ru...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had Ubuntu(8.04) running for a while on my laptop (Toshiba
> satellite) and yesterday I tried hooking up a ADS-Tech usb IR Blaster
> which is listed in the support hardware list for LIRC using the usbx
> driver. Using dmesg I can see the device coming up on /dev/ttyUSB0. I
> am not sure how I need to setup the hardware.conf file to make this
> thing work.
> I tried a few different combinations and now I can start the LIRC
> daemon and it stays up and I can start irw without any problems. But
> it does not provide any output. I tried mode2 and it tells me that it
> cannot find the device. I tried the command sequence bellow and as you
> can see the results are not any better.
>
>>$ ls -asl /dev/lirc*
> 0 srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-09-07 10:08 /dev/lircd
>>$ sudo mode2 -d /dev/lircd
> mode2: error opening /dev/lircd
> mode2: No such device or address
>
> I pasted my hardware.conf below. Any suggestions? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> -Rui
>
> # /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
> #
> #Chosen Remote Control
> REMOTE="USB-UIRT"
> REMOTE_MODULES=""
> REMOTE_DRIVER="usbx"
> REMOTE_DEVICE=""
> REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF=""
> REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS="-d /dev/ttyUSB0"
>
> #Chosen IR Transmitter
> TRANSMITTER="USB-UIRT2 : Direct TV Receiver"
> TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""
> TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
> TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
> TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF="directtv/general.conf"
> TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""
>
> DRIVER="usb_uirt_raw"
>
> #Enable lircd
> START_LIRCD="true"
>
> #Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
> #START_LIRCMD="false"
>
> #Try to load appropriate kernel modules
> LOAD_MODULES="false"
>
> # Default configuration files for your hardware if any
> LIRCMD_CONF=""
>
> #Forcing noninteractive reconfiguration
> #If lirc is to be reconfigured by an external application
> #that doesn't have a debconf frontend available, the noninteractive
> #frontend can be invoked and set to parse REMOTE and TRANSMITTER
> #It will then populate all other variables without any user input
> #If you would like to configure lirc via standard methods, be sure
> #to leave this set to "false"
> FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"
> START_LIRCMD=""
>