[ATrpms-devel] lirc FC6

[Mark Wormgoor]

Axel,

If you look at the zaptel.rules, it has always had '==' and if I remember
correctly, that has worked since FC3 (where udev was introduced).

Kind regards,

Mark

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> Hi, Axel
>
>
> for FC5 is the same thing. You will see that all rules have "kernel==". The
> only exceptions are lirc and fuse. The difference is that FC5 does not
> complain.
>
> Therefore, for lirc:
>
>
> KERNEL=="lirc[0-9]*",   NAME="lirc%n"
> KERNEL=="lirc0",        SYMLINK="lirc"
>
>
> For EL4 I would have to look in a computer with it.
> The one I have is turned off now. Only when I get to
> the work I will see it. But I believe it is the same thing ...
>
> Maybe someone from the list could report fuse
> to Fedora extras.
>
> /Paulo Roma.
>
>
> On 10/26/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:00:28PM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, you got it.
>>>
>>>
>>> That is the problem. Fortunately, the fix is easy:
>>>
>>>
>>> in /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules, change
>>>
>>> KERNEL="lirc0",        SYMLINK="lirc"
>>>
>>>
>>> for
>>>
>>> KERNEL=="lirc0",        SYMLINK="lirc"
>>>
>>>
>>> The difference is the == instead of a single =.
>>>
>>>
>>> The same has to be done for
>>>
>>>
>>> 60-fuse.rules
>>>
>>>
>>> which presents the same problem.
>>>
>>> Can you change that for FC6, Axel?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the fix, Paulo! do you know whether this works with older
>> udevs, too, like the ones in FC5 and EL4? If not, is there a way to
>> detect what era of udev is running on a specific system, e.g. the "="
>> one or the "==" one? ;)
>>
>>> /Paulo Roma.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/25/06, Andreas Mueller <mailinglists at andreas-mueller.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Axel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> what is happening to lirc in FC6 is that as soon as any
>>>>> application with lirc support starts, the daemon (lircd) dies. It
>>>>> can be mplayer, gnome-radio, irexec ....
>>>>>
>>>>> /dev/lirc0 is there. lirc_gpio is also loaded.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can restart lircd, but it will die again ....
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I had the same problem. On another machine (still) running FC5,
>>>> there
>> is
>>>> a symbolic link /dev/lirc -> /dev/lirc0. I created such a link
>>>> manually on my FC6 machine and lircd works for now (until the next
>>>> reboot of course).
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately I'm no udev expert, so I can't provide a permanent
>>>> solution.
>>>>
>>>> Andreas.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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