Please excuse me if I'm missing something that I shouldn't. I *think* I've followed the install guide and other sources carefully. Please excuse me also if this is posted twice - my first post did not seem to go through but it could have been an email prob on my end.
I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and have done the following:
Uninstalled the Mandrake-supplied lirc.
Built lirc from the CVS.
Under devfs, the lirc_gpio module wants to create /dev/lirc/0 rather than /dev/lirc, so I removed the /dev/lirc special device created by lirc's make install and made a directory instead. Did chmod 666 /dev/lirc? and chmod 777 /dev/lirc.
Added alias char-major-61 lirc_gpio to the top of /etc/modules.conf (position probably doesn't matter for gpio).
Manual start (modprobe lirc_gpio && /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc/0) works as expected. Did ldconfig after first manual start.
Added /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc/0 to the end of rc.local. --device is needed since lircd tries to hook to /dev/lirc regardless of what lirc_gpio did.
On boot, lircd does not start successfully, apparently because the lirc_gpio module is not loading. I thought that it would load automatically due to the alias in modules.conf. Is the /dev/lirc/0 thing the problem?
I don't have the Mandrake script to start lircd because, from what I read elsewhere, I uninstalled the Mandrake lirc rpm.
Thanks for any help. After getting this one last thing ironed out perhaps I can find a way to contribute.
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I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and have done the following:
Uninstalled the Mandrake-supplied lirc.
Built lirc from the CVS.
Under devfs, the lirc_gpio module wants to create /dev/lirc/0 rather than /dev/lirc, so I removed the /dev/lirc special device created by lirc's make install and made a directory instead. Did chmod 666 /dev/lirc? and chmod 777 /dev/lirc.
Added alias char-major-61 lirc_gpio to the top of /etc/modules.conf (position probably doesn't matter for gpio).
Manual start (modprobe lirc_gpio && /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc/0) works as expected. Did ldconfig after first manual start.
Added /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc/0 to the end of rc.local. --device is needed since lircd tries to hook to /dev/lirc regardless of what lirc_gpio did.
On boot, lircd does not start successfully, apparently because the lirc_gpio module is not loading. I thought that it would load automatically due to the alias in modules.conf. Is the /dev/lirc/0 thing the problem?
I don't have the Mandrake script to start lircd because, from what I read elsewhere, I uninstalled the Mandrake lirc rpm.
Thanks for any help. After getting this one last thing ironed out perhaps I can find a way to contribute.
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