[mythtv-users] MCEUSB troubles

Steve Greene sgreene59 at verizon.net
Sun Mar 27 18:27:39 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 17:49 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2011, at 10:44 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> I've been trying to work with the Mythbuntu 10.04 sources, which are
> >> built against kernel 2.6.32.  I had tried the cvs source 0.8.7 from
> >> lirc.org, but it wouldn't build against this kernel.  I am out of luck
> >> until I upgrade?
> >> 
> > 
> > I needed lirc-0.9_pre1 to get it to work.  0.8.7 compiled fine with my
> > 2.6.32 kernel but then I got ioctl errors versus the media_builds
> > mceusb driver.
> 
> lirc 0.9.0-pre1 is so last year. 0.9.0 was finally cut and released yesterday. ;)
> 
> But yes, 0.8.7 won't work with the upstreamed lirc kernel interface (unless patched).
> 

So the newer lirc code only works with the lirc code built in to the
kernel?  No way to get this IR blaster working with the bundled
Mythbuntu lirc? 



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