Well, I'm not sure if I've fixed it (machine doesn't seem to have
rebooted fully and I'm remote).. but I think I simply needed to
provide lircd with a path!
John.
On 11/21/06, John Hunt <johnrhunt@???> wrote:
> I've been desperately trying to get my lirc IR reciever
> working..however, when I try to run the lircd program at boot time via
> rc.local it simply doesn't start (ps -ef | grep -i lirc produces
> nothing after boot).
>
> If I run the same command as root after the system has booted it
> starts just fine. I decided to do it properly and use an init script
> to start/stop lircd:
>
> (I used gantzgraf:/etc# update-rc.d lirc defaults to make it auto-start)
>
> /etc/init.d/lircd:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system
> case "$1" in
> start)
> setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
> modprobe lirc_serial
> lircd -p 0666 /dev/lirc0 &
> ;;
> stop)
> pkill lircd
> rmmod lirc_serial
> ;;
> *)
> echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/lirc {start|stop}"
> exit 1
> ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
> Oh yes, it has been chmodded 755 too of course!
>
> Now, this script runs fine like I say when I call it manually as root
> on the system, yet lircd just refuses to start at boot time (the
> modprobe still works)..I'm pretty much out of ideas!
>
> I understand this probably isn't the nicest way of starting lirc, but
> the debian package didn't work at all (missing the lirc_serial driver,
> doesn't do the setserial thing etc..)
>
> Any help would be great...perhaps I have to give the module time to
> settle or something before running lirc?
>
> Thanks,
> John.
>
