Fun with lirc and streamzap...

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Jeff Creem <jeff at thecreems.com>:

>
>> 1) Are you sure you have the lirc_streamzap module built for your kernel?
>> No, how do I do that?  I haven't seen any info on this.  Of course, I
>> did not know to even look for it.  :-[
>>
>
> lirc is one program that I really have no idea why they even bother
> including as a binary package. It essentially
> never has the right modules included and thus ends up really providing
> no value at all. I suppose it is
> some sort of dependency of other items..

Oh, it makes sense for them to ship it because lots of modules are
user-space only.  However for streamzap you need to compile the
lirc_streamzap kernel module yourself.  What I did was I created
myself an "dkms-lirc" package that will rebuild the lirc_streamzap
and lirc_dev kernel modules automatically for me.

> In any case, you almost certainly need to recompile it from source and
> configure with the appropriate device.

Yep, you do.

> I ended up doing mine from a tar and installing in /usr/local rather
> than rebuild via source RPM. It is fairly easy
> and certainly works with the streamzap remote.

That's certainly one option.

> I am using Centos 5 for my mythtv setup mostly because who whats the
> non-hassle
> of a pre-configured working out of the box setup :)

I'm using Fedora..  But to each her own.

-derek
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