On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:48:32PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Ilya!!
>
> > /dev/lirc is a root-only kernel device. Only lircd is supposed to read
> > it. lircd then keeps a socket at /dev/lircd which other apps (irw,
> > irxevent, xmms plugins ...) can read from and get the actual button
> > names etc. So you probably want '/dev/lircd'.
> irw works only as root no? I could not run it as a normal user.
No. Just make sure the permissions on /dev/lircd allow reading by
non-root.
> > And no, it's not the IRMan plugin (which prolly should read from
> > /dev/ttyS0 - serial device) but a special lirc plugin which can be
> > found on LIRC's page or http://www.xmms.org .
> Ok found some on xmms.org. Thanks.
>
> > xawtv-remote is simply a utility to switch channels from shell scripts
> > etc. xawtv itself, if compiled with lirc support, will read /dev/lircd
> > and follow the rules from ~/.lircrc .
> > Here's the .lircrc file I built:
> > http://www.galanet.net/~future/dot-lirc
> Could not find. Mail it to me please.
Oops,
http://www.galanet.net/~future/dot-lircrc
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Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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