Re: LIRC on Laptop + hELP!! [SOLVED]

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 01:13, HaJo Schatz wrote:
>  On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:18 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>  > Does anyone on either of this list know how to properly configure LIRC
>  > esp on a laptop?
>  Yeah, tricky thanks to the limited lirc documentation.
>  
>  > and also /dev/lirc/0
>  > 
>  > if I start lircd via
>  > 
>  > sudo lircd -n -d /dev/lirc/0 on a console and then
>  > I start "irw" on another, pressing _any_ buttons on the remote (any
>  > remote) doesn't give me any output.
>  > 
>  > Addition to that, using irrecord also does not work.
>  You have insmod'ed lirc_sir, have you? Poorly documented, but you'll
>  need the module to have ir-support. It has to be configured properly and
>  -- and that was the tricky part -- the UART has to be prepared. For my
>  laptop this means the following in /etc/modprobe.conf:
>  
>  # Lirc remote control
>  alias char-major-61  lirc_sir
>  options lirc_sir irq=3 io=0x2f8
>  install lirc_sir { /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none
>  || : ; };  /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_sir
>  
>  I guess you know what that means... If no,. ask me. 
I've finally gotten it working. I'm not sure if it's because I compiled
SMSC_?? into the kernel and not as a module or otherwise.

but it works now

>  
>  
>  > If I can't get this to work, Mythtv will be of not much use :-(
>  Yeah, same here, but with freevo instead.
>  
>  The wiki of freevo gives some more hints about LIRC.
>  
>  HaJo 
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