Re: Status for LIRC (remote support)

[David <da...@ha...>]

On Thu, June 14, 2007 18:10, Loïc Dardant wrote:
> It is very hard to configure Lirc. For those who have try, run a shell, re
> build lirc, run the lircd deamon... isn't very easy for a end user. The
> idea
> is to provide a applet to run easily Lirc :
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RemoteControlApplet
> Some work is done, but it's really the beginning. I try to contact the
> leader of kdelirc (it's something like an applet that allow you to
> configure
> lirc), but no reply for the moment :(. Here I need some guys (or girls ;))
> to help me.
>
>
> There are lot of other interesting things with Lirc, like the Drivers
> recompilation.

Why not work on porting as many drivers as possible to use the input layer
of the kernel instead (and to get the converted drivers accepted into the
kernel)? It should solve many if the issues you've listed...

-- 
David Härdeman