[mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Luke wrote:

> Brian asked me to look into options "LIRC_OPTS="--with- 
> driver=hauppauge" in /etc/make.conf". This seems like Gentoo lingo.  
> I tried the HOWTO at  Gentoo-Wiki and that confused me even further  
> with stuff like "emerge" and "/etc/portage/package.keywords". I  
> have never used Gentoo before, but I am open to any solutions to my  
> problem.
>

Sorry about that. I run an FC3 box and I found building a Gentoo  
machine to be confusing at first. I needed to take a step back and  
learn the "Gentoo Way", but in the end you get a system that is  
completely compiled from source and totally optimized for your exact  
configuration, IMHO a better final result.

Gentoo's support for MythTV seems quite good, and I think some of  
their docs on the subject would be useful to folks running MythTV on  
other Linux variants.

The key point is that LIRCD_OPTS needs to be passed to the running  
lircd daemon to tell it what device to listen to, while LIRC_OPTS  
seems to be a compile-time directive to tell it what hardware support  
to build in (ie: i2c support if you're using a Hauppauge remote).  
Obviously different different systems will pass these parameters  
along in different ways. The fact that they are so similar seems to  
cause a lot of confusion.

If you're constructing from RPMS then the LIRC_OPTS has probably been  
decided for you, hopefully in the correct way. LIRCD_OPTS needs to be  
in a config file someplace, and will primarily differ between uDev  
and /dev systems, there will also be multiple choices if you have  
more than one Hauppauge card and will depend on which card you have  
plugged your IR receiver into. You also need to be sure that the  
device that LIRCD_OPTS points to exists when lircd starts, which it  
may not before the correct modules are loaded on a uDev system.

Confused? So am I.
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