[mythtv-users] Re: OT: LIRC on Debian with a custom 2.6.8 kernel

[Shawn Asmussen]

> Anyone? Someone out there must be running a 2.6 kernel with an lirc
> module? Even if it was a serial port module... how did you get it to
> compile?
> -Chris
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:37:27 -0400, Christopher Flynn
> <flynnguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have an ahanix D5 case with lcd and IR on the parallel port. I have
>> the lcd working through lcdproc and now I'm trying to compile the lirc
>> module for my kernel. However, when I do I get:
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/lirc/drivers/lirc_i2c'
>> Makefile:359: /usr/src/linux//Rules.make: No such file or directory
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux//Rules.make'.  Stop.
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/lirc/drivers/lirc_i2c'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/lirc/drivers'
>> make: *** [i2c] Error 2
>>
>> From what I can tell (from searching) it is looking for Rules.make but
>> that is not available in 2.6 correct? Once I get it compiled I can
>> play with the parallel port settings and hopefully get them to work.
>>

I think you just need to use a newer version of the lirc code. Something
changed at some point with the 2.6 kernel that required them to make a few
changes to the lirc code to make it work. I had the same problem the first
time I tried to compile the lirc tarball that I had with 2.6.8, and I
found out that I needed to upgrade to one of the latest cvs snapshots. I'm
currently using the 0.7.0pre7 version, and that will compile with 2.6.8.
As a side note, although I got it compiled with 2.6.8-1, I found that when
I tested it, lircd core dumped every time that I tried to test it with
irw. Could be an issue with the lirc code, or maybe the ivtv driver, since
the lirc driver has to interact somehow with the ivtv driver to use the
hauppauge remote. I went back to the 2.6.5 kernel that FC2 shipped with,
and lirc worked fine, so whatever the problem was, it seemed to only show
up with the 2.6.8 kernel. The problem I saw might have been only with the
hauppauge lirc driver, or with a specific version or versions of the ivtv
driver, or maybe in the kernel itself. All I know for sure is that going
back down to 2.6.5 made my problem disappear.

Shawn Asmussen