Lircm and X

[P4man]

Thanks for posting guys, i got a remote that works fine in xmbc and the like, and I kinda wondered how to use it as mouse replacement.

I guess this is how
I have to try this now

[Krister Hallergard]

Have installed 10-lirc_mouse.fdi as per omarino above. The lircd deamon works fine but not the lircmd deamon. Message that it cannot connect to socket /dev/lircm
Help please!

[Grenage]

Check that the point exists. I never got that method to work, but I was able to get it to work with Blackie_Chan's method.

[Krister Hallergard]

No I cannot get it to work with Option "AutoAddDevices" "off". Well it looks ok in the Xorg.0.log, but it does not work

[Krister Hallergard]

Thanks, what did you mean "Check that the point exists" - might be something I have missed?

[Grenage]

Hi again, does /dev/lircm definitely exist, can you see it in /dev?

[Krister Hallergard]

Hi there, No I cannot see /dev/lircm, and believe that that is my problem. How is lircm created??

[Grenage]

It sounds like the lircm daemon isn't running; if you manually start lircm, does it appear?

[Krister Hallergard]

Here it is:

root@DESKTOP:~# /etc/init.d/lirc stop
* Stopping remote control mouse daemon: LIRCMD [fail]
* Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC [ OK ]
root@DESKTOP:~# /etc/init.d/lirc start
* Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC [fail]
* Starting remote control mouse daemon :
LIRCMD
lircmd: could not connect to socket
lircmd: Connection refused
[fail]
root@DESKTOP:~#

[Grenage]

Ok, that looks like lirc itself is having some issues. Take a look at the following link, especially the links referred to within it:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=3228

If you still have issues, post back and I'll do what I can to help.