[pvrusb2] IR help linux newbie

[Jeff Sadowski]

Acctually that is insignificant
I am so sorry I haven't refined my documentation and
finnished this already I just got swamped with work 
:-P
with the mknod command it makes a device node to
control the device. this is all that is needed.
I'll look into it and see if I can find my old
documentation and fix anything.

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~jeffski/new_to_lirc.txt

This might be helpful

--- Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Ryan Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > Ok,
> > 
> > So I made some changes, but I'm still not any
> closer to a solution
> > unfortunately.
> > 
> > I used the commands you suggested:
> > mknod /dev/lirc0 c 61 0
> > ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc
> > 
> > And now I have this:
> > [root at schmitzerLNX dev]# ls -l /dev/lir*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    10 Dec 29 22:06
> /dev/lirc -> /dev/lirc0
> > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 61, 0 Dec 29 22:05
> /dev/lirc0
> > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 Dec 29 22:09
> /dev/lircd
> 
> Actually, I thought he said you needed to create
> "/dev/lirc/0" not 
> "/dev/lirc0" (note the extra level of directory).
> 
> As for whether it should actually *be* /dev/lirc0 or
> /dev/lirc/0, I 
> think it would be better if your lircd actually
> looked for the right 
> file rather than trying to hack something into /dev
> which is just going 
> to go away the next time you reboot (because that
> whole area is a tmpfs 
> file system and udev is going to reinitialize
> everything when it starts 
> up again).  Unfortunately I'm not an FC user so I'm
> not sure of the 
> specifics there.  Generically (or at least
> Debian-ish) speaking however, 
> I have a /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file on my system
> and in there, the 
> lircd daemon is programmed with the name of the
> device file to open.  
> For example I see in my hardware.conf this line:
> 
> 	DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
> 
> These issues really have nothing to do with the
> pvrusb2 driver.  It's an 
> lirc / distro problem here.  Have you googled around
> for info on this?
> 
>   -Mike
> 
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