Re: [FIXED] Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:04:28AM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Greg Vickers wrote:

OK, I found out that Debian Etch uses a new input layer, and that the IR
inputs are in /dev/input/eventX where X corresponds the event number of
your input devices in 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices'

So my IR device is /dev/input/event1, instead of /dev/lirc or /dev/lirc0.

Just a heads-up, that event number could easily change from boot to boot.
You can preserve your sanity by making a udev rule like the following and
put it (or a symlink) in "/etc/udev/rules.d/"

KERNEL=="event[0-9]", ATTRS{name}=="cx88 IR *", SYMLINK+="lirc%n"

my udev-fu is very weak, but the %n substitutes the kernel supplied
number. in which case you'll get lirc[0-9] depending on which event it
matches. If you only have one ir port that you care about, then you'd
probably always want it to be the *same* symlink regardless of which
event it gets assigned to:

KERNEL=="event[0-9]", ATTRS{name}=="cx88 IR *", SYMLINK+="lirc0"

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