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2012-01-04 , 17:33
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Originally Posted by Old Abe View Post
I know, I know; it's gimmicky. I don't care. I want to be able to use it because it is there.
Not a gimmick! Lots and lots and lots of devices out there have IR ports, and you can (in theory) control them all. I certainly have fun with it.

I first installed the Raemote widget. It worked flawlessly. I then installed QtIrreco and manually configured necessary items. Nothing. Initiated lirc with sudo - nothing.

And now Raemote works not at all...
Both Raemote and QtIrreco depend on the LIRC server; if that server is not up and running, they can't access the IR device. (And if you had Raemote running, then it had already installed and started the LIRC server for you.)

If this is the problem, you should probably be able to get the server up again by running something like "/etc/init.d/lirc start" from the command line (as root).

EDIT: oops, I guess you tried that already. Still, I would look to what is up with LIRC if both IR apps are failing. Also, LIRC depends on the lirc_rx51 kernel module, so if it is maybe having trouble running the modprobe, that could be something to check. (Basically, if /dev/lirc0 exists, then the module should have been loaded correctly.)

(Do I have to install the power kernel? I plan on doing that anyway.)
I gotta say, throwing an entirely new kernel onto the device can only increase the possible number of things that can go wrong, not decrease them. The IR hardware works perfectly fine under the stock kernel.
Last edited by Copernicus; 2012-01-04 at 17:40. Reason: Misread original post