Re: No /dev/lirc0

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Feb 10, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I don't have the whole picture, but this is what I do have:
> 
> Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 (kernel@2.6.35), recently moved from a working
> IR... :( on 10.04.  Using the lirc package that came with the OS
> (0.8.7).
> 
> The LCD is working, as is the knob on the front of the machine.  It
> changes the volume happily.  It's not a feature that I enabled, but a
> nice touch.  I had hoped that my remote would work similarly.  Sadly,
> no.
> 
> $ lsusb | grep iMON
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 15c2:ffdc SoundGraph Inc. iMON PAD Remote Controller
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/input/by-id | grep ffdc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-02-10 22:11 usb-15c2_ffdc-event-mouse -> ../event6
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-02-10 22:11 usb-15c2_ffdc-mouse -> ../mouse2
> 
> Reading this thread, I see that a third device is expected under /dev/input
> <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=E9D047B2-73F9-4842-A22C-0EAEC2EC96B8%40wilsonet.com&forum_name=lirc-list>
...
> mode2, irw, lircd, irrecord, all require that /dev/lirc0 (or
> equivalent) exist, but I haven't been able to find it.  I've tried
> using /dev/input/event6 and event2, as referenced by the sysfs entries
> listed about, but these really don't work.
> 
> I don't need the USB HID quirk workaround (checked that).
> 
> What am I missing here?  Where is the device?



http://wilsonet.com/?page_id=95

Ubuntu has a relatively ancient imon driver that doesn't have the remote/panel
split. -event-mouse is where all your events should be coming in at, but they
may not all have in-kernel mappings in said ancient imon driver.

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Jarod Wilson
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