[ATrpms-devel] heads up: lirc in-kernel soon?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Aug 25, 2007, at 06:53, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:

> I have been using lirc in kernel for a long time.
>
> It is already there for bttv cards.
>
> http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Remote_controllers
>
> I do not need to use lirc-kmdl anymore. In fact, if I use it, every  
> key I press produces a ghost key,
> which is a nightmare for changing channels in certain programs,  
> such as mythtv and tvtime.
>
> I had to create my own version of lirc-devices
>
> /etc/sysconfig/lircd
>
>          # Options to lircd
>          LIRCD_OPTIONS="-H dev/input -d /dev/input/lirc"
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules
>
>         KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{modalias} 
> =="pci:v00008086d0000244Esv00000000sd00000000bc06sc04i01", SYMLINK 
> +="input/lirc"
>
> with the two files above. Of course I had also to create another  
> remote code file for myself.
>
> Everything works perfectly.


Doesn't help for a lot of other IR receivers, we still need the  
drivers. :)


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> If you do not mind I have a question about mythtv.
>
> The only thing I cannot accomplish yet is make mythtv work with the  
> sound cards of my new computer.
> The onboard produces a loud sound, and the second one (snd-cmipci)  
> no sound at all. Both of them
> work perfctly with all other programs. Do you know if it is  
> possible to use anything different
> of /dev/dsp for configuring the capture card in myth setup? I  
> tried /dev/dsp2 (snd-bt87x) and
> /dev/dsp3 (snd-cmipci) with no luck.

No clue, I haven't used any cards that require using a sound card to  
capture audio in a few years.

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Jarod Wilson
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