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henniez

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Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 8

/dev/lirc missing [SOLVED]

Hi,

i've been trying to get lirc working for over 15 hours, without success. I got a hauppauge wintv (hvr 1300) remote control.

i did the following so far

pacman -S lirc
modprobe lirc_i2c
added lirc_i2c to rc.conf

my problem is that i don't get a /dev/lirc or /dev/lirc0 or /dev/lirc/0. i just have /dev/lircd (even the lircd is only available when i started lircd). so i can start the daemon lircd but as soon as i start irw or anything else which connects to lircd, the daemon quits und I get a connection refused oder .

I also tried to add the udev rule from the contribute (in the lirc tar)
i'm using lirc-0.8.2-4 und kernel 2.6.22

does anybody know why i don't get those devices in dev?

thx in advance

henniez

Last edited by henniez (2007-08-17 22:51:33)

henniez

Member

Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 8

Re: /dev/lirc missing [SOLVED]

Found a solution

for the hvr-1300 remote controll to work i needed to latest v4l drivers and I had to load the ir-kbd-i2c module. then i got a /dev/input/eventX device.

that way it worked

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: /dev/lirc missing [SOLVED]

hello henniez,

i've got the same problem, i've tried what you did, but it still doesn 't work. how do you start the lirc daemon? how is your /etc/conf.d/lircd?

vlad

henniez

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Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 8

Re: /dev/lirc missing [SOLVED]

http://www.ganymede.ch/2007/09/05/mytht … -hvr-1300/