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?