[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#702140: Bug#702140: Bug#702140: lirc: default device for mode2 is /dev/lirc; should be /dev/lirc0

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Control: tags -1 pending

Hi

On Sunday 03 March 2013, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
[…]
> On Sunday 03 March 2013, Eric Cooper wrote:
> […]
> > $ mode2 
> > mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
> > mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory
> > 
> > The device name for the first IR receiver is /dev/lirc0 in
> > recent kernels.
> […]
> 
> Thanks for reporting this, I'll look into this issue over the next few 
> days. Unfortunately it won't be eligible for a wheezy unblock anymore, 
> but the issue can be worked around easily:
> 
> -d --device=device		read from given device
> 
> In the meantime just call mode2 (or xmode2) with --device=/dev/lirc0

I've committed the required changes to our packaging Vcs in [1], please
keep in mind that this won't make it into wheezy anymore.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-lirc?view=revision&revision=512
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