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Old 02-09-2007, 08:24 PM   #1
Hobbiticus
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hiddev devices missing -- SOLVED


I'm trying to put together a mythtv box, and I just got my IR receiver today - the Streamzap from thinkgeek. It needs to use the /dev/usb/hiddevX device in order to work, but the device doesn't show up. The only device in /dev/usb is lp0 for my printer. I just rebuilt my kernel to include "/dev/hiddev raw HID device support", but still no luck.

I'm running Debian Etch on kernel 2.6.20. I would think that the device would be automatically created, but apparently that's not the case, and I don't know how to create it manually.

Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: I should also mention that in the usbview utility, my printer and the streamzap both show up, but the streamzap is in red. I don't know what that means, but it's probably bad!

Last edited by Hobbiticus; 02-10-2007 at 04:53 PM.
 
Old 02-10-2007, 04:52 PM   #2
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Ok, I solved my own problem. I didn't need hiddev devices to get this to work. I DID have to compile lirc from scratch from a cvs snapshot though. (the current apt binary and apt source packages both did not work because of recent changes in the kernel source) Apparently lirc actually includes the driver for these types of devices and when lirc is properly compiled/installed, it will create /dev/lircX devices (in my case /dev/lirc and /dev/lirc0, along with /dev/lircd and /dev/lircm, but I don't know what those are). From there it's up to you for what you want to do with it.
 
  


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