tv card on Fedora 10

[Germán A. P. F. <g-p...@gm...>]

Hi!

I've been googling a lot about my issue, but I have got no definitive 
answer for it, so I thought I would ask here. I have my desktop PC, 
running Fedora 10 32-bits (kernel 2.6.27) and using the fedora packages 
for lirc (version 0.8.4a). This PC has installed a Kworld 878-RF TV card 
(lirc card model 78) which works really well with tvtime. However, the 
real problem is that the remote on this card used the lirc_gpio.ko 
kernel module, which was present IIRC until Fedora Core 6. From there 
until now, I have never been able to configure this remote, because the 
module would not build because the kernel developers removed some parts 
of the kernel's bttv API or something like that. After researching a 
lot, it seems the remote should work now using another API. However, I 
cannot make it work. I tried setting the modprobe.conf file to different 
TV card models (with the same 878 chipset as mine) and I discovered that 
using model=70 the card works fine, and it also produces a device in 
/proc/bus/input/devices. However, this device has major-number 13 
instead of the expected 61, therefore mode2 will not work. If I use 
card=78 (the recommended one) no device is created at all. The lirc 
service starts OK, and I get a /dev/lircd device, but nothing else.

Any ideas on how to get this remote working?

Thanks a lot, and sorry for my (excessive?) verboseness.


German.