Re: LiRC configuration

Antti Ajanki wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, William M. Quarles wrote:
> 
>> Antti Ajanki wrote:
>>> Is lircd running and does it recognize your remote? In Debian lircd is 
>>> started by typing
>>>
>>> /etc/init.d/lirc restart
>>>
>> [root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/lirc restart
>> Stopping infrared remote control daemon (lircd):           [  OK  ]
>> Starting infrared remote control daemon (lircd):           [  OK  ]
>> [root@localhost ~]#
>>
>> It doesn't say anything about whether or not my remote is recognized.
> 
> At least it doesn't report any errors. Maybe it prints some more 
> information is syslog or some other log file?

I wouldn't know any other log file to look in, and I don't know where 
syslog is located (at least not on Fedora Core 5).

> 
>> [root@localhost ~]# xmode2
>> xmode2: No such file or directory
>> xmode2: error opening /dev/lirc
>>
>> Also, from the man page on xmode2:
>>
>> "Of course this program won't work with hardware that decodes the 
>> signals itself like e.g. TV cards or the Irman."
> 
> So, is your remote one of those?  Though, it shouldn't matter after you 
> get lirc to recognize it.
> 

Apparently /dev/lirc doesn't exist?  I have a /dev/lircd though.  I 
tried linking /dev/lirc to /dev/lircd and that definitely wasn't the 
solution.  Any ideas?

>>> Also, does avview print out any LIRC related error messages when you start 
>>> it from the command line?
>>>
>> [root@localhost ~]# libzvbi available export modules:
>>         HTML:keyword "html" mimetype "text/html" extension "html,htm"
>>         PNG:keyword "png" mimetype "image/png" extension "png"
>>         PPM:keyword "ppm" mimetype "image/x-portable-pixmap" extension 
>> "ppm"
>>         Text:keyword "text" mimetype "text/plain" extension "txt"
>>         VTX:keyword "vtx" mimetype "application/videotext" extension "vtx"
>> NUM_ADAPTORS=1
>> Adaptor 0: ATI Radeon Video Overlay
>>                 type input video image
>>                 ports 73
>> 73 ATI Radeon Video Overlay
>> master=.controlwin row=1 column=0
>> Looking for km device that corresponds to PCI:01:00.0
>> master=.controlwin row=1 column=0
> 
> Which version is this? It should at least say:
> 
> Initializing LIRC.
> 
> and then give some warnings if it can't connect to lirc daemon.
> 

Which version of what program are you talking about?  I am using AVview
0.80.7 and LIRC 0.8.0.

Thanks,
William



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