[mythtv-users] Mandrake 9.1 LIRC headaches

[Mark]

Uuuh.  Right.  ;)   I like Mandrake because I don't usually have to 
fiddle with drivers, but
hate Mandrake because they do so much customization.  There is something 
to be said
for distros like Debian, that don't screw with what Linus did....

Mark Edwards wrote:

>isn't this about the time where tech supports recommends that you reinstall
>windows? ;-)
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>From: "Mark" <fairlane at voyager.net>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:49 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mandrake 9.1 LIRC headaches
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>>Every time I've tried a vanilla kernel on mandrake, all kinds of stuff
>>got broken.
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>>Mark Edwards wrote:
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>>>I'd start with a fresh .22 from www.kernel.org if I were you...
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Mark" <fairlane at voyager.net>
>>>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:24 PM
>>>Subject: [mythtv-users] Mandrake 9.1 LIRC headaches
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>>>>UGH!!!
>>>>
>>>>I have been trying all night to get a custom kernel compiled for a new
>>>>version
>>>>of LIRC, and I am getting nowhere.  I know MDK9.1 LIRC is broken, so
>>>>I was trying to recompile the kernel with serial port modularized before
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>I
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>>>>install the new LIRC, and I can't get the dumb kernel compiled!  It
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>keeps
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>>>>failing on make dep with an Error 2, it can't find some file related to
>>>>LIRC.
>>>>
>>>>Below is a note I sent to the mandrake list:  anyone see any problems?
>>>>
>>>>Running MDK9.1.  Having a lot of problems recompiling.
>>>>I need to recompile to get LIRC running, before anybody asks why
>>>>I need to recompile...
>>>>
>>>>Steps I've taken so far:
>>>>
>>>>cd /usr/src/linux as root
>>>>make mrproper
>>>>make menuconfig
>>>>
>>>>switch the character devices setting under 16550 UART from built-in to
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>>>Module
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>>>>Save the config file
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>>>>make dep, which gives a bunch of stuff then
>>>>some errors about missing files and directories that used to exist for
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>>>LIRC,
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>>>>OK, I removed them until the new LIRC source is downloaded.
>>>>Last line is make: *** [dep-files] Error 2
>>>>
>>>>Then, I run make clean, runs ok.
>>>>
>>>>Then, I run make bzImage, which runs for a couple seconds, then enters
>>>>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-13mdk/kernel, says No rule to make target
>>>>modversions.h, needed by sched.o.  Stop.
>>>>Error 2.
>>>>
>>>>And that's it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Mark
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