[vdr] Re: LIRC and kernel 2.6.3

["Adrian P Challinor" <adrian.challinor@osiris.co.uk>]

OK, to answer myself. 

Kernel 2.6 doesn't use the /dev/lircd directory as the device for lirc.
Instead, a new device is created: "/dev/lirc/0". There is also a socket for
the LIRC interface created as /tmp/.lircd 

To get lirc working I did the following. Using the Mandrake 10 src
distribution, which includes LIRC as a kernel build option, I built all the
modules I needed. I have the serial IR device, so I just chose to do a build
for the serial module. 

NOTE WELL - if you want this to work, make sure you don't have other modules
accessing the serial port - specifically, make sure you disable serial mouse
being built in to the kernel! 

When Linux boots: 
	modprobe lirc_serial 
	lircd -d/dev/lirc/0 

This will activate the device. 

Next, in vdr.c, I changed the line that reads: 

  	new cLircRemote("/dev/lircd");
to 

  	new cLircRemote("/tmp/.lircd");

Once you have a decent lirc.conf, recompile and your away. 


Adrian Challinor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org] On Behalf Of
> Adrian P Challinor
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 12:01 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] LIRC and kernel 2.6.3
> 
> I'm running Linux 2.6.3-3 with VDR 1.3.5 on a Mandrake distribution. I
> have
> a serial IR receiver that irrecord can see (provided lircd is not
> running).
> I have see that the IR device is created as /dev/lirc/0 rather than as
> /dev/lirc which is what the driver is expecting.
> 
> However, attempts to modify vdr.c to change the device that lirc connects
> to
> have proved unsuccessful. VDR states that the IR device
> " ERROR: /dev/lirc/0: Connection refused".
> 
> I have checked that I have a /tmp/.lircd file.
> 
> Does anyone have a serial IR device workining under a 2.6 kernel and if
> so,
> how?
> 
> Thanks Adrian
> 
> 
> 
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