Re: LIRC / REDHAT 7.1 / PACKARD BELL REMOTE/RECEIVER

[Eric J. <al...@xm...>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:35:58 -0500
"Mercury" <xme...@mi...> wrote:

> Ok if anyone has gotten LIRC to work on REDHAT 7.1 with a PACAKRD BELL
> Reciever please e-mail be back and tell me how you did it.  If you have
> gotten a packard bell remote to work on another Linux OS please tell me
> which OS you were using so I can try out my luck with it.


	I've used a packard bell reciever with various revisions of redhat, suse,
debian, and caldera (ugh). 

	I found it wouldn't work right if the kernel serial port driver was
loaded before the lirc serial driver was loaded. This can be a problem if
you're using a distribution-supplied kernel because the serial driver is
usually built into the kernel rather than built as a module. 

	That may not be the case these days - not working with serial.o already
loaded i mean - I haven't used the pb reciever in well over a year. 

	If you're using the stock redhat 7.1 kernel this may be a good time to go
read the kernel howto and learn how to roll your own. 

 - Eric