compatibility problem with lirc-0.6.3 (used on Agenda VR3)

[Enrique V. <ev...@it...>]

Hello,

I have found that lirc release 0.6.3 is not fully compatible 
with previous release.  It is neither fully compatible with 
the current stable lirc-0.6.4.

I have been successfully working with lirc-0.6.3pre3 until now.
Recently I got an Agenda VR3 palm-top Linux device that comes 
with lirc-0.6.3 pre-installed.  So I have directly tried it with
the lircd.conf file of my esktop computer.  While it does work
properly with the signals of most remotes, there are a few, based
on RC-5-a, for which lirc-0.6.3 fails to generate proper IR
signals.

I have also tried to install lirc-0.6.3 on my desktop computer 
and it shows identical troubles with the same RC-5-a IR codes. 
In both cases, the driver involved is lirc_serial.o

Finally I have tried the current release lirc-0.6.4 on my
desktop computer and it works fine with all the remotes.

The reason why I insist in lirc-0.6.3 is that it is exactly this
apparently faulty release the one which comes preinstalled in all
the available flash root-disks for Agenda VR3 and it does not
seem to be a trivial task to patch another release (say
lirc-0.6.4) and build a corresponding root disk-with it.

Any idea about these difficulties?

Enrique.