[mythtv-users] lirc, what a nightmare to setup

[Chris Germano]

If anybody can offer some guideance for installing and setting up lirc in 
Mandrake, it would be much appreciated. The docs for myth do not cover 
setting up the actual device ie where do I setup the com port for lirc? I'm 
also not sure what irq, port or address it is on, nor in which place to set 
this. I have tried installing lirc manually and set it up in that 
configuration, as well as in the /etc/sysconfig/lircd, and 
/etc/modules.conf. Help...

With mandrake once you urpmi lirc, the driver needs to be setup or else it 
goes "UNCONFIGURED" when started. Nobody covers how to do this, and blindly 
I found a post saying add various commands and com port options to 
/etc/sysconfig/lircd. After this it will start, and for a while I could go 
"mode2" and have it actually show my pulses coming in from the remotes. 
However once I tried to start "IRW" or "IRXEVENT" to test it like the mythtv 
documentation says it will either kill the lirc process or just say 
connection refused.

Anybody have any thoughts, or know of any decent step by step guides for 
mandrake? I'm going nuts here as my home brewed receiver works perfectly but 
trying to get the software to work is a different story.

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