Fedora 7 lircd & /dev/lirc Been trying to configure lircd on my fedora installation and connect to it via freevo but kept getting this error from the lircd daemon when freevo was fired up could not open /dev/lirc Finally found the answer on the mythtv site somewhere ( lost the link ) what you have to do is cat /dev/input/event1 then press buttons on the remote and look for garb to be printed if