Re: issues with lirc 0.8.4 and a Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus DVB-s, irkick (KDE 3) on openSUSE 11.1

[Hans-Peter J. <hp...@ur...>]

Am Montag, 6. April 2009 schrieb Christoph Bartelmus:
> Hi!
>
> Hans-Peter Jansen "hp...@ur..." wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I straced now lircd and irw, and found, that while lircd receives the
> > key presses just fine, irw doesn't receive anything on its socket.
> >
> > [Sorry for the overly long lines, but this way, one is able to read the
> > traces much more comfortably, if your screen is wide enough.]
> >
> > # strace -tts512 /usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/ir -n
>
> [...]
>
> > It stays in read(5, ...) until I stop lircd. What's wrong here? Why
> > doesn't send lircd those events to irw?
>
> Your config file probably is wrong. Use this one:
> http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput

That did the trick. I wonder, why the distribution doesn't cope with this - 
and why this change isn't communicated more prominently.

Anyway thanks for your help, Christoph. You made my evening ;-).

Cheers,
Pete