lirc with stock FC2 2.6.5 kernel

[dnar]

Hi everyone,

in most of my past RH setups I have compiled lirc support into my kernels, along with Alsa, lm_sensors, Win4Lin and more.

This time around, seeing as Alsa, lm_sensors, Dual-Head Matrox, Touchpads, TV card etc have all worked out of the box (this is really excellent) I decided to see how far I can go without requiring kernel compilation or extensive 3rd party installations. I am now running Win4Lin on another RH9 box - I use this with remote-X, so my dependance on Win4Lin kernel builds are taken care of.

Now to my original subject, one package I have had to grab from atrpms is MythTV. I have it up and running fine, but lirc is not. I also use lirc to interface with xmms and gqradio (remote control of these apps from my balcony). :)

Has anyone found or managed to get the lirc kernel module working with the stock RC2 2.6.5 kernel?

Cheers.

[shtik]

i found it difficult to get lirc running on my system (with home-brew infrared-sensor).
the rpm i got was precompiled to work only for one special remote control, and trying to recompile from source rpm quit with unexplainable error. so i grabbed lirc source from cvs and uninstalled the rpm. i had to uninstall both mplayer and xine because the rpms tell they NEED lirc to run (makes no sense to me), so i could decide: lirc or media player?

nonetheless installing from source worked well, and now i even found a way to use mplayer and xine with lirc: try building an rpm from source, best way for me does checkinstall, it's very easy ...

good luck
shtik

[dnar]

Thanks man, I'll give it a shot.

[dnar]

Hrm, I downloaded lirc from VCS, built ok, installed ok, but I get this when I attempt to load the kernel module:-
[root@Criten lirc]# /sbin/modprobe lirc_gpio
WARNING: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.6-1.427/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting lirc_gpio (/lib/modules/2.6.6-1.427/misc/lirc_gpio.ko): Invalid module format

What did I miss?