Re: tv card on Fedora 10

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Hi!

Germán Andrés Pulido F. "g-p...@gm..." wrote:
> 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.

You need to use the "devinput" driver with lircd to access the input  
device:
http://www.lirc.org/html/devinput.html

Christoph