[mythtv-users] OT: using redhat9 and mythtv0.11 atrpms...can't getlirc to work.

[Joe Byrne]

I started down the path of trying to get lirc to work from packages.  There
were various problems, eg it can't autodetect NTSC Leadtek Winfast cards.
Pretty quickly I realized the solution was to buy an IR keyboard and a
learning remote.  If you want to kill the last official weekend of summer,
play w/ lirc.  If you don't mind dropping $100, go my route.  Plus, it's
pretty handy to be able to whip out a keyboard on a moment's notice, and
universal learning remotes are pretty handy.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "and" <hons at rcn.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] OT: using redhat9 and mythtv0.11 atrpms...can't
getlirc to work.


> I know this is might not be the ideal place to ask about redhat, but as
> it relates to mythtv I hope I won't get completely flamed for posing a
> few ignorant user questions. So here goes:
>
> I've installed redhat9, atrpm and mythv-suite following the exclelent
> and user frendly howto from Jarod, but I can't get lirc to work... Have
> anyone managed?
>
> The automatically included lirc rpm seems to be for a more recent
> kernel than the one distributed by Berlin and end up in another
> lib/modules subdirectory from my running kernel.. 2.4.20-20.4 instead
> of 2.4.20-19.23 (the system isn't running, but I think I got the
> version numbers correct)
>
> I've tried compiling from cvs source ,but I can't get it to work even
> after a complete config-make dep-make-make modules using the included
> kernel config....
>
> Can I just switch to a vanilla kernel kernel.org source (2.4.22) or
> will that break anything in the Mythtv installation?
> It seems the redhat flavoured kernel from Berlin has i2c and other
> patches that might be required......
> Any insights?
>
> Is there another trick to use to get it to work (i've tried just
> copying the drivers to the running kernel module directory, but that
> didn't work... ;-)
>
> rgds
> anders
>
>