Re: [ATrpms-users] lirc for Fedora: use Fedora's version (was: Issues with lirc)

[John H <ari...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM, John H <ari...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti <pr...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:44 PM, John H <ari...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> >To make sure you remove all lirc bits including old ATrpms' ones
>>> >please do
>>>
>>> >rpm -qa lirc\* | xargs rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches
>>>
>>> >Then do
>>>
>>> >yum install lirc
>>>
>>> >to fix the dependencies again.
>>>
>>> Do you still want me to do this? Or will the statement below cause a
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> >But there are some small differences. I think the configuration file
>>> >is /etc/sysconfig/lircd for ATrpms and /etc/sysconfig/lirc for Fedora.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Methinks that Lirc from ATrpms is gone for Fedora. From now on, we have to
>> use Fedora's version. It is a good decision, in my opinion.
>>
>> You just need to move your configuration from /etc/sysconfg/lircd to
>> /etc/sysconfig/lirc,
>> and restart lirc. I have done that, and lirc is working just fine.
>>
>> The new configuration file has a LIRC_DRIVER variable. It is the only thing
>> I had to change. In my case, I am using:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> # Note: in addition to these parameters, you need to have working    -*- sh
>> -*-
>> # configuration file for lircd (and lircmd if enabled).
>>
>> # Options to lircd(8).  Typically, this will be empty, as which driver to
>> use
>> # should be specified using the LIRC_DRIVER variable below.
>> LIRCD_OPTIONS=""
>>
>> # The infrared receiver (and/or transmitter) driver to be used by lircd(8),
>> # similar to passing "-H driver" to lircd(8).
>> # Run "/usr/sbin/lircd -H help" to get a listing of supported drivers.
>> LIRC_DRIVER="dev/input --device name='bttv IR (card=70)'"
>>
>> # Which lirc device will be used by lircd(8).
>> # This is the same as passing "-d device" to lircd.
>> # An empty value will use the default /dev/lirc device.
>> LIRC_DEVICE=""
>>
>> # If "yes", the init script will try to start lircmd(8) too.
>> ENABLE_LIRCMD="no"
>>
>> # Options to lircmd(8).
>> LIRCMD_OPTIONS=""
>>
>> --
>> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>> LCG - UFRJ
>>
>
> Thanks, I just made the changes. I'll post the results if I get
> another Tainted issue. Thanks for the help much appreciated.
>

I'm fairly confident this resolved my issue as I haven't received any
tainted issues all day today.

Thanks for the help.