On 7/10/06, Michael Mauch <michael.mauch@gmx.de> wrote:
> Andrew Conkling wrote:
> 
> > I have a Philips MCE remote with a USB receiver that I have working on
> > LIRC 0.8.0 on Ubuntu Dapper.  (I installed from source from the
> > instructions on http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote.)
> >
> > I'm having a problem with unplugging the receiver.  This is my laptop,
> > so I'm fairly frequently unplugging it.  When I plug it back in, I can
> > rerun lircd and irexec to get it working again, but is there a way to
> > get it to start working automatically when plugging it in (like e.g.
> > my USB mouse)?
> 
> Perhaps you could use udev to (re)start lircd and irexec.
> 
> Unplug the device, run
> 
>   udevinfo -d >before
> 
> Plug the device in, run
> 
>   udevinfo -d >after
>   diff -u before after
> 
> You should get a line with a "+" prepended - that's your device. The
> left column before the "=" (without the "+") is the udev device path.
> 
> You can see all the device attributes with:
> 
>   udevinfo -a -p your_udev_device_path
> 
> Now go to /etc/udev/rules.d and look at the files there, e.g.
> 85-hdparm.rules:
> 
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="hd[a-z]", \
>         RUN+="/lib/udev/hdparm"
> 
> The first line is used to search for a specific device/action, and the
> RUN entry tells udev what it should start when the rule matches.
> 
> Create a new file like 71-local.rules (the suffix has to be ".rules")
> and add two lines similar to that 85-hdparm.rules, but which matches the
> attributes of your device. Restart udev with "/etc/init.d/udev restart"
> afterwards.
> 
> For a complete guide see
> <http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html>, and/or see
> "man udev".
> 
> Regards...
>                 Michael