[mythtv-users] Fedora 11 and lirc

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 08:23 -0600, John P Poet wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> > Some misc lirc notes for Fedora 11 users:
> >
> > 3) lirc_serial appears to be broken. I swear it worked last I tried it, but
> > its been a while. For the record, I think lirc_serial is rather grotty code,
> > and everyone should stay away from it and use something usb-based instead. I
> > still intend to look at it and get it fixed though.
> 
> So, if I need to use lirc_serial, what should I do?  Is there a
> version of Lirc I can compile myself that handles it correclty?

Got lirc_serial in the Fedora 2.6.29.x kernels fixed last night, and
have now successfully tested it out on two separate rigs. F10 and F11
kernels available at the following locations:

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29.5/88.fc10/
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29.5/206.fc11/


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com