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  1. Bug #164627
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 164627

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Panayiotis Savva (psavva) wrote : Re: [Bug 164627] Re: lirc based applications can not get exclusive access to /dev/input interface

Maybe it is worth a mention that you need to restart the lirc daemon

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart

or just simply restart your pc :)

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:52 AM, tafkaz <email address hidden> wrote:

> ups...
> now after rebooting the fix worked...
> so for me the bug is solved.
> i have this in my /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/lirc.fdi:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
> <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="saa7134 ir">
> <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
> </match>
>
> <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="cx88 IR (Hauppauge
> Nova-S-Plus">
> <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
> </match>
> </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>
>
> thanks for helping !
> Sascha
>
> --
> lirc based applications can not get exclusive access to /dev/input
> interface
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164627
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