[ATrpms-users] Fedora 8 and lirc

[Nick Morrott]

On 17/11/2007, Marvin Match <match at ece.utah.edu> wrote:
> Using Fedora 8 x86 64, Athlon 64 on an nVidia-based MOBO, I did this,
> which is right out of Jarod's Myth(tv)ology guide:
>
> # yum -y install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
> # yum -y install lirc
>
> Which installed 3 files, no errors messages.
>
> Then added these lines to /etc/modprobe.conf, since I'm using a
> serial reciever on the first serial port:
>
> alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
> options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
> install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none ;\
>     /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial
>
> then tried to start it with:
>
> # /sbin/service lircd start
>
> I got no OK's and the only messages in /var/messages that relate to
> lirc say that yum installed it. /usr/bin/irw won't run, says "no such
> file or directory" and sure enough, I can't find it there or anywhere
> else.
>
> What am I missing?

Have you run

# modprobe lirc_serial

to load the LIRC modules before starting lircd?


If you have, were your LIRC devices created?

# ls -l /dev/lirc*


What device is lircd trying to start with? You might need /dev/lirc
and/or /dev/lirc0, depending on how lircd is starting up.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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