Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Greg Vickers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian 
> installation on AMD64.  I've used module assistant to create the lirc 
> kernel modules and the modules install and modprobe successfully:
> # lsmod | grep lirc
> lirc_i2c               14980  0
> lirc_dev               20264  1 lirc_i2c
> i2c_core               27776  6 
> lirc_i2c,cx88xx,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_nforce2
>
> Once the modules are loaded, I can't talk to the /dev/lirc file with 
> mode2 or anything else, so I think there may be something wrong with the 
> udev rules, the only entry I can find is in the 
> /etc/udev/permissions.rules file:
> KERNEL=="lirc[0-9]*",                           GROUP="video"
>
> Am I missing something?

Apparently, since you mention /dev/lirc in the same sentence claiming udev only 
supports lirc[0-9]*. :-)

I think /dev/lirc is, or was, the upstream default device.