Re: tv card on Fedora 10

[Germán A. P. F. <g-p...@gm...>]

Hi again!

I dislike replying my own e-mail, but can anybody please give me a hint 
on this issue? what is the current replacement module for lirc_gpio.ko? 
or is still available somewhere? my whole first email is below.

Thanks!

Germán Andrés Pulido F. wrote:
> 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.
> 
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