[SOLVED] Small problem with IR (lirc)

[unimatrix]

Hello. I've managed to configure my IR controller (Creative Audigy 4 External Hub).

Whenever I run ircat, irw, or irxevent, lirc will immediately crash, producing the following log in /var/log/syslog

May 12 20:34:45 Andrej lircd-0.8.3pre1[10287]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
May 12 20:34:45 Andrej lircd-0.8.3pre1[10287]: cannot open /dev/snd/midiC0D1: No such file or directory
May 12 20:34:45 Andrej lircd-0.8.3pre1[10287]: caught signal

Funny thing is, the file DOES exist. I can even read it using
cat /dev/snd/midiC0D1
(if i press any keys on my remote it gets printed out here)

If I ls it:

$ ls -la /dev/snd/midiC0D1
crwxrwxrwx+ 1 root audio 116, 9 2008-05-09 19:02 /dev/snd/midiC0D1

So why does lirc think that file doesn't exist?

[unimatrix]

SOLVED!

in "/etc/lirc/hardware.conf" i needed to set this variable correctly:

REMOTE_DRIVER="livedrive_midi"

Everything is explained in this amazing Gentoo wiki:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LIRC#Cr...igy_2_Platinum

EDIT: Apparently Gentoo-Wiki decided they don't want people to use it and deleted all the useful articles. Fortunately here's a different source:
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Creative...igy_2_Platinum