[mythtv-users] LIRC RPM

[Craig O'Shannessy]

Hi Ignacio,

I got this working with this card last night.  I downloaded lirc from it's 
home site, and built.  It's pretty easy, although you MUST build your own 
kernel first.  This isn't that hard. The reason for this is that lirc 
uses a kernel module that attaches to the bttv driver that in turn 
connects to the 2000xp.

Basically a high level howto comes down to this :-

get the kernel sources from wherever (either a RPM or other package, or 
from kernel.org, I upgraded to 2.4.22).

Configure, build and install your kernel (see /usr/src/linux/README)

reboot so that you are running the newly built kernel.

download the lirc source and unpack it.

run ./setup.sh in the lirc source directory, this will let you select the 
2000xp.

run make then make install (as root)

test your setup (run lircd and then irw, this should show your buttons 
when you press them on the remote).

WARNING : There is one gotcha here, the rpm conflicts with the source 
install, you might want to edit the Makefile and change
prefix = /usr/local

to

prefix = /usr

This will cause the source build to overwrite the RPM files.  You need to
have the lirc RPM still installed, otherwise apt-get will complain forever
more about mplayer needing it.

Hope this makes sense and isn't too scary.

Craig


On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, 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?
> 
>