[mythtv-users] Anybody had any luck with Gentoo/lirc-0.9.0/MCE remotes?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 15:10:45 UTC 2012


> I've had a bear of a time getting all of the buttons on my MCE remote
> working on my new Gentoo MythTV install (3.1.6 kernel, I believe) with
> lirc-0.9.0.  All that is working are my arrow keys.  Unfortunately,
> the older lirc (0.8.7?) won't compile to do some changes in the kernel
> (bomps out on a smp.h file), or I'd just downgrade and not use
> devinput.
>
> Any suggestions?

I found that 0.8.7 is not compatible at all with recent kernels (at
least it was not in summer). I have had to roll my own 0.9.0 in then
to get my MCE based blaster to work. At that time I was using the
media build git

http://git.linuxtv.org/media_build.git

for the kernel lirc drivers. However by now I have moved back to in
kernel drivers and gentoo-sources-3.1.X. I do not use the remote so I
am not sure of any regressions in button handling. I am mainly using
this to blast to my comcast DCA and that works fine.

John


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