[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#860300: Bug#860300: lircmd does not work

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 04:37:28 UTC 2017



On 14/04/17 11:18, Bernd Schumacher wrote:

> I want to use lircmd
> After making sure that lirc works to control vdr and kodi, I configured lircmd in /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf
> [lircmd]
> uinput          = True
> nodaemon        = False
>
> After starting "systemctl start lircmd", lircmd started without option "--uinput".

How do you know that? Note that lircmd reads lirc_options.conf by 
itself, it's not that lirc_options.conf puts --uinput on the command line.

> Because I was not able to control my X11 mouse pointer, I tried to add this option.
> No matter if I tried on commandline by calling "/usr/sbin/lircmd --uinput",
 > Apr 14 11:03:38 majestix lircd-0.9.4c[23887]: "lircmd.cpp":394: Bad 
file descriptor
 > Apr 14 11:03:38 majestix lircd-0.9.4c[23887]: "lircmd.cpp":394: Bad 
file descriptor

I cannot reproduce this... something is missing. Could you please expand 
on what you did to get this message?

The code at line 394 tries to write to the /dev/uinput device, so it 
might be some problem with that.

Poking around with this I found another in lircmd though [1].

Cheers!

--alec

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/tickets/283/



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