[mythtv-users] LIRC RPM

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 23:00 US/Pacific, Ignacio wrote:

> HI, i have a leadtek winfast 2000xp deluxe, and i want to get the 
> remote control working. I installed the atrpm version of 0.7.0pre2 and 
> i was wondering what is the proper way to set it up?

It won't work, at least not without some work. The ATrpms lirc is 
preconfigured for Hauppauge remotes (primarily for PVR-x50 users). You 
need to get the .src.rpm file, and rebuild for your remote. You have to 
install it, edit the spec file, then build your own...

The primary line you'd need to change is this one:
	--with-driver=hauppauge

But there may be other tweaks needed, since you likely don't have all 
the ATrpms rpm macros...

The problem is that you can only build an lirc binary for one remote 
type at a time, so it would require building a bajillion or so kernel 
modules to cover all of them. Note that Freshrpms has an lirc also ( 
http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=155 ), but it is prebuilt for 
Pinnacle PCTV cards' remotes, and notes that you'll have to build your 
own if you want to use another remote (also note that the Freshrpms one 
isn't patched to work with i2c 2.8.0 though, so it won't work with the 
latest ATrpms kernels, but should work w/stock RH kernels).

Axel, is there a way to clearly illustrate to people that the prebuilt 
ATrpms lirc will ONLY work with Hauppauge cards, and possibly give them 
some insight into what they'd have to do to rebuild from the .src.rpm 
file for their own remote? I'll finally get some lirc rpm stuff into 
the guide this weekend...

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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