LIRC on DELL Studio 1735

[Helmut F. <hel...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I'm running OpenSuSE 11.1 on a DELL Studio 1735 and almost everything works 
well except the IR port.
The notebook came with the DELL Travel Remote Control. On pre-installed 
Windows Vista using this remote control in multimedia apps is no problem. But 
on Linux I have several problems to get it running. 
The IR chip is an ITE8708 (I/O 0x0300-0x0307, IRQ 10) which is detected 
by "lshal" and "YaST->Hardware->Hardware-Informationen" as an ISA-PnP device. 
But I don't know how to proceed to get the remote control running.
When I'm running "YaST->System->Einstellungen für /etc/sysconfig" to setup 
lirc in "Hardware->Lirc" my changes won't obviously not be taken into 
an /etc/lirc.conf. And (re-)starting the lirc daemon will then fail...
I think that any lirc related packages are installed.

Who can help me in detail?
If required, i can send the hardware-info output file via email.

Many thanks in advance!
Helmut