Ryan Homan

Not sure exactly what caused the error, but I had been using a original ATI remote wonder for years on my mythbox and most recently had been running mythbuntu 7.10 I decided to upgrade a few weeks ago to 8.0.4  and every since then, a few of the buttons had stopped working. I had helped a friend of mine setup a new mythbuntu machine about a month prior and we purchased the Windows Media Center remote for him and I must say that I really like that remote especially since it has a backlight. So with the issues I was having with my ati remote and the fact that my ati remote has been getting less effective over the years (buttons not working, range decrease, etc), I decided to also purchase the MCE remote for my system.  Except when I ran the very nice remote config from the MCC, my remote did nothing and I was getting errors with lirc. The error that I was getting with lirc was “No such file or directory”. Also when running irw, I was getting cannot connect: “No such file or directory”.

So I begin the troubleshooting process and began searching many posts on the web looking for ideas. There was not really any good solution that matched up with my problem so I just had to figure this one out on my own. From what I can tell, this only becomes an issue if you have upgraded from 7.1 to 8.0.4  and does not occur on new installs. I then tried to restart lirc by running /etc/init.d/lirc restart but that resulted in a fail stating unable to load module, check your hardware.conf

So I looked at my hardware.conf and after some trials, I determined  that this line: REMOTE_MODULES=”lirc_dev lirc_mceusb2″ was causing the error. I removed the lirc_dev module and rebooted my machine. When it came back up, everything worked great.