[mythtvnz] Hauppauge PVR-150 IR Blaster problems

[Steve Hodge]

On 7/24/06, Mike Dilger <mike@mikedilger.com> wrote:
> I finally got my Hauppauge PVR-150 today.  If I had known better, I
> would have gotten the MCE edition that has the USB IR receiver...
>
> I'm having problems with the IR receiver.
>
> lirc-0.8.0-r4 (gentoo) doesn't have a driver for this one.  The
> hauppauge driver doesn't work for me.    I have also pulled a patched
> version for pvr150 from Mark at blushingpenguin
> (http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=24) and that one didn't
> work either.
>
> The modules load and say "lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered,
> at major  61", but the device file (/dev/lirc/0) doesn't get created.
> And for good reason because if I make it by hand (mknod /dev/lirc/0 c 61
> 0) and cat the device (cat /dev/lirc/0) I get
>     /dev/lirc/0: No such device
>
> Advice?

You have set LIRC_DEVICES right in /etc/make.conf?

Steve