FC4 - LIRC

[Robert La Ferla]

Having LIRC in FC4 would really help.  It's loaded into the kernel so 
it's difficult to build separately which is why I think it should be 
included in FC4.  Anyone running MythTV, tvtime, Xine, mplayer, etc.. 
will appreciate it.

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 21:32 -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
>  Having LIRC in FC4 would really help.  It's loaded into the
> kernel so 
>  it's difficult to build separately which is why I think it should be 
>  included in FC4.   
then .... why did nobody submit it for the kernel.org kernel yet ???
that's generally step 1 to get such things into the fedora kernel.

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

Robert La Ferla wrote:

>  Having LIRC in FC4 would really help.  It's loaded into the
> kernel so 
>  it's difficult to build separately which is why I think it should be 
>  included in FC4.  Anyone running MythTV, tvtime, Xine, mplayer, etc.. 
>  will appreciate it.
>  
Many don't need more than the lirc daemon, it can get data from the 
input layer these days.... so e.g. my bttv remote show up at 
/dev/input/even0 (or event 2 if mouse and keyboard are plugged in... 
bah), which lirc can handle just fine.

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 21:32 -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
>  Having LIRC in FC4 would really help.  It's loaded into the
> kernel so 
>  it's difficult to build separately which is why I think it should be 
>  included in FC4.  Anyone running MythTV, tvtime, Xine, mplayer, etc.. 
>  will appreciate it. 
LIRC is on my private list of things to do when I get a round tuit. It
was easily buildable against 2.4, but I didn't have enough time to test
it against 2.6 and having got a DVD player for free with the new cell
phone didn't help either ;-). If I find enough time, the plan is a
driver package akin to the nvidia drivers from livna which is easily
rebuildable for the installed kernel (and -devel) packages. But I'm not
a LIRC developer, I won't drive this upstream and I certainly don't make
any promises regarding when this will happen.

Nils
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