Re: lirc's stopped working (kernel 2.6.22, current CVS lirc)

[Eric S. <sa...@sa...>]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> Much to my chagrin, lirc has stopped working :\.
> 
> We (Mandriva) are shipping kernel 2.6.22 in our next release. I found
> out a few months back that lirc 0.8.2 does not work with kernel 2.6.22,
> so I've stuck to a 2.6.17 kernel for now. But now we've updated our lirc
> modules / userspace stuff to latest CVS, which is supposed to work with
> 2.6.22, so I thought I'd test it out. It's not working...
> 
> with a configuration that previously worked with kernel 2.6.17 and lirc
> 0.8.2, what now happens is that irw shows nothing. There's no error
> messages - the modules load, lircd loads and from its log messages seems
> to be working properly - but irw just doesn't show anything.

Hm, not a lot of help but just as a datapoint, Jarod just tossed lirc
into the Fedora 8 test kernels, on 2.6.23-rc$FOO, and reported
success... so it does work somewhere at least.  :)


-Eric