lirc works, buy not automatically

[voam]

Hello all,

I am in the process of installing mythtv and this are going really well but automating the infra red portion is giving me some problems. When I run all the steps individually the infrared works and controls mythtv, but when I try to have the computer auto login to the mythtv user and start up mythtv automatically then the ir device does not work.

These are the commands that work when I type the commands manually:

modprobe lirc_i2c
lircd
or /sbin/service lircd start
irw
... just to test that it works, and it does....
CTRL-C
irxevent &
mythfrontend
Again I repeat this works.

But...when I add the lines
irxevent &
mythfrontend &
into a script file in my Autostart directory then the lircd device does not work. I believe the lirc device is starting automatically on boot. I have the /etc/lrcd.conf file in place and I have the .lircrc file in the /home/mythtv directory.

Any ideas? And how should I ensure that each step is successfully happening?

Thanks in advance.

If this is a double post or if there are typos I apologize as I am using my tv as the monitor and I am typing blind.

Cheers

[voam]

Perhaps this will shed some light on the problem: Here goes the relevant info from /var/log/messages.
It looks like the service starts ok but then has trouble initializing. How can I go about troubleshooting this? Also, when I type in /sbin/service lircd status I get "system dead but subsystem locked" or something like that.

lircd-0.7.2[2430]: lircd(any) ready
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: default_init(): No such file or directory
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: caught signal

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Jman]

You could probably put the module you are modprobe'ing into /etc/modprobe.conf. Also, be sure the lircd service is configured to start on boot with

chkconfig lircd on

[eof]

Originally Posted by voam

Perhaps this will shed some light on the problem: Here goes the relevant info from /var/log/messages.
It looks like the service starts ok but then has trouble initializing. How can I go about troubleshooting this? Also, when I type in /sbin/service lircd status I get "system dead but subsystem locked" or something like that.

lircd-0.7.2[2430]: lircd(any) ready
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: default_init(): No such file or directory
lircd-0.7.2[2430]: caught signal

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

It's really simple
You need to tell lircd about the device to use, because stupid is looking for /dev/lirc by default. I have this for my LIRCD_OPTIONS in /etc/sysconfig/lirc:

LIRCD_OPTIONS="-d /dev/lirc0 -p 0666"

This will at least prevent the daemon from crashing IF your lirc device is indeed /dev/lirc0 (you could probably find that out by inserting/removing the receiver thingie) and if you have the appropriate
driver as default compiled into lircd. It is worth trying I think.

hth
Steffen