[mythtv-users] Should I just give up on lirc_serial?

[Tom Dexter]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  I read something in the past few days that said that kernel modules
>  may no longer be required for lirc as they're now built into the
>  kernels. I'm running 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.centos.plus on Centos Plus 5.1
>  - does anyone know if this has the kernel drivers built into the
>  kernel?
>
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>
>  Regards,
>  Phill
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I haven't heard anything about that.  I'm running a 2.6.23 kernel
under Gentoo and am not aware of any built in kernel support.  The
following are installed as part of the lirc ebuild:

/lib/modules/2.6.23-gentoo-r8/misc/lirc_dev.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.23-gentoo-r8/misc/lirc_serial.ko

That's got to be really annoying.  I've used serial lirc on many
machines over the years and haven't seen anything like
that...definately a strange one.  If this has all been on the same
machine, maybe there's a hardware problem with the serial port
itself(??).

Tom