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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