[ubuntu-mythtv] [Question #10271]: Installing lirc

[Derek Christensen]

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Derek Christensen gave more information on the question:
Oops, I didn't see that kernel when I was looking earlier.  I guess I
shouldn't do this stuff at 2AM...

I've upgraded  to the 2.6.22-8-generic kernel.

However lirc was still not cooperating.  It would start, but couldn't find the device.  Here is what I was getting in my syslog:
Jul 27 09:52:08 mythtv lircd-0.8.2[6536]: lircd(userspace) ready
Jul 27 09:52:08 mythtv lircd-0.8.2[6536]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Jul 27 09:52:08 mythtv lircd-0.8.2[6536]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
Jul 27 09:52:08 mythtv lircd-0.8.2[6536]: default_init(): No such file or directory
Jul 27 09:52:08 mythtv lircd-0.8.2[6536]: caught signal

I've confirmed that /dev/lirc doesn't exist, neither does /dev/lirc0.  In fact ls -l /dev/|grep lirc yields only this:
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root           0 2007-07-27 09:52 lircd
prw-r--r-- 1 root root           0 2007-07-26 21:36 lircm

So I've symlinked lircd to lirc (probably could set this in
hardware.conf also).  It now starts without errors (and I can open a
connection with irw, which I couldn't do before), but I'm not at home,
so I can't fully test it.  I will test tonight and reply back.

Thanks,
Derek

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