[mythtv-users] HEADS-UP: New lirc rpms (was: Problems with apt-get install mythtv-suite)

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Feb 10 04:36:20 EST 2004


On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:39:06PM -0800, Mike Kreitz wrote:
> I am having issues using the command apt-get install
> mythtv-suite. [...]

Sorry, this was my fault, will be corrected in about an hour.

The reason is that lirc was moved to bleeding. If you want to fix it
now, enable (temporarily) at-bleeding, or install lirc by hand before
running apt.

More background: Until now lirc was built with all kernel modules for
all drivers, but with the userland lircd/irrecord suited for hauppauge
only. I had tried "any" to match more drivers in the past, but it
looked like it was not working.

I have been corrected by the lirc developers that "any" does indeed
support a bunch of drivers (in userspace) including hauppauge,
pinnacle etc. So I have rebuilt lirc accordingly and marked it
bleeding. Unfortunately I have no lirc devices to even test basic lirc
functionality, that's why I maked it and asked some people for testing.

Sorry for this bug. And I hope the new lircd is working as advertized,
otherwise there will be more unhappyness :(

Note:

> Hauppauge works with: lircd --driver=default.
> Pinnacle works with: lircd --driver=pinsys.

E.g. you will have to edit /etc/init.d/lircd to add these switches
for now. Future rpms will have /etc/sysconfig/lircd for this.

Please God, let the lirc rpms work for all devices this time! :/
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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