realmagic IR controller and reciever

[Munir N. <nas...@re...>]

first off, please accept my appologies for the lengthy post, 

i am trying to setup a DVD playing box, so i installed RH7.3 on an older 
PPre200, and i put in a REALmagic dxr3 card for dvd decoding and TV 
playback,

i want to use the remote control that came with the realmagic card to 
control stuff like volume and mplayer/xine/ogle, it is connected to ttyS0

i tried using the RH lirc rpms and i could not get them to work, so now i 
am just going to use the source tarball from lirc.org

i followed the documentation, ran ./setup.sh and configured that card 
(ttys0, realmagic etc...)

after it runs configure it says that it does not need to build kernel 
modules, which is fine by me

i added the line "/usr/local/lib" to the /etc/ld.so.conf and "alias 
char-major-61 lirc_serial"

i copied the sigma templace to /etc/lircd.conf

and my .lircrc shows
begin
	remote = REALMagic_SIR
	button = SELECT
	prog = irexec
	repeat = 0
	config = echo "Hello!"
end

before i try to run lircd i execute: setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none

when i run lircd and press select on the remote nothing happens

now my question is, am i overlooking something stupid? i was under the 
impression that some kernel module had to be loaded, which ones? and why 
isn't the Makefile creating them?

thank you for your help

Munir Nassar
RedConcepts.NET