[ATrpms-users] Fedora 8 and lirc

[Marvin Match]

On 17 Nov 2007 at 4:20, Nick Morrott wrote:

> 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?

I have now... no difference. Before my initial "request for help" on 
this list I had downloaded and run Jarod's lirc.modules script, which 

should have loaded any modules in /etc/modprobe.conf

I can't tell if the module is loading or not, and I can't test it 
because I have no /usr/bin/irw

> 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.

/dev/lirc is there and it's a link to /dev/lirc0 which is also there.

Hmmm... this tells me that at some point in my flailing around it 
loaded the module because it created the devs, right?

Marvin