Fun with lirc and streamzap...

[Bruce Labitt]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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
>   
Do I need to do anything more than uninstall the old lirc and just

# *./configure --with-driver=streamzap && make && make install  ???
*# *modprobe lirc_streamzap*
*
*for the newer 0.8.2 version ?  I found a reference to read the documentation on 
upgrading from lirc x.y.z ... but I can't seem to find the actual instructions...

Thanks!