getting lirc working

[knathraak]

Sorry I replied on the ubuntu-users mailing list, but I messed up the
subject line.  Here's a link in the forum:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=23160

macta Wrote: 
> I too have been struglling to get LIRC running - so reading your post at
> least gives me hope.
> 
> Am I correct in understanding (and this might be tricky as I know that
> in these circumstances you try all sorts of things)
> 
> You did:
> 
> 1) apt-get install lirc-source-headers
> 2) followed the instructions in the README
> e.g.  
> make-kpkg --revision 4 modules_image
> dpkg -i lirc<version stuff>.deb
> 
> (actually in the above - for Ubunutu hoary, not sure what revision
> number to use as uname -r gives: 2.6.10-4-386?)
> 
> 3) ignore the .o that is put in /lib/modules/kernel-source-ver/misc/
> 
> 4) Download the lirc.org source ( lirc-0.7.0.tar.gz ) extract it and
> follow the INSTALL instructions:
> 
> ./setup.sh && make install
> 
> At this point things seem to work (where as if you did step 4 first it
> wouldn't work - I recall I never got it to work when I tried it, but
> havne't followed these steps)
> 
> 5) Do some manual configuration of modules (what exactly did you have
> to do?)
> 
> 6) fix /etc/lirc/hardware.conf (not sure what you had to do - but I
> imagine this bit depends on your remote)
> 
> 
> Does this seem about right - and if you could expand on any of the bits
> that I didn't understand that would be great.
> 
> Tim


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knathraak