[LUG] Lirc troubles....

[David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi all,

After reading the semi-recent messages about Lirc I thought I'd have a 
go... unfortunately, things don't appear to be working.

I am trying to control xmms (1.2.7) with the control from my Hauppague 
WinTV PCI-FM card.
I have downloaded and compiled the latest version of Lirc and compiled 
and installed the kernel modules (running kernel 2.4.19-pre3 on SuSE 7.3).
I have copied the config file for the RC from the 
/usr/share/doc/packages/lirc/remotes/hauppauge/ directory to /etc/ and 
the .lircrc file from /usr/share/doc/packages/xmms/lirc-xmms/ to my home 
directory.

Now, most people would consider all that to be the hardest part, but not 
for me...

If I start xmms without the modules loaded and without lircd running and 
try to enable the IR plugin I get a "no such device" message as expected.

OK, so I start lircd as root since I can't get it to run as my normal 
user and load the correct kernel module (lirc_i2c).
When I start xmms as my normal user and attempt to enable the IR plugin 
I get a "/dev/lirc Device or resource busy" message.

Help, it's driving me mad!!!


Thanks,
David.

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