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Topic: How can I get lirc working on a frugal install?, best/easiest way to approach this.

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robc

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Posted: Oct. 16 2007,23:08

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That looks more like it caused by /dev/lirc not existing..?

Yes, that is what I originally thought, but /dev/lirc does exist and afaik lircd creates /dev/lirc if it doesn't already exist. I also get that same error when I tell lircd to use a different device (i.e. /dev/ttyS0).

I've been trying to get the modules for lirc to compile but they are being quite stubborn

. I am down to this error ouput:

Code Sample

Makefile:8: **************************************************
Makefile:8: *** Makefile trick not undone, trying to recover *
Makefile:8: **************************************************
make[5]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[4]: *** [lirc_i2c.o] Error 2
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [i2c] Error 2
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

I think I am done working on this for today, I'll come back to it tomorrow. Any suggestions and/or answers are more than welcome.

bpsg119

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Posted: Oct. 17 2007,02:35

I've been a bit more successful, but only just. I could write pages on this but to keep it short, I was able to get 0.8.2 compiled and working on a regular HD install with DSL 3.2 back in June/July.

As the topic implies, I'm now trying to get it working on a frugal install with DSL 3.4. As suggested in previous posts, I'm trying to get it to install on 3.4 HD install now and I'll try to get it over to my frugal system once its working fine.

So far I've been able to get it to compile, responds to mode2(ir input), and even been able to use irrecord to program a remote. That said, irexec a necessary module of lirc for me to do what I need isn't present.

I've found this post to be very useful as a guide to getting this setup before and even now---even though its behaving differently than with 3.2
lirc guide

I haven't had time to work on it since the weekend, but I'll be sure to post if I have more questions or if I happen to get this working.

robc

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Posted: Oct. 17 2007,22:47

bpsg119: thanks for the link, it helped a lot

I was able to get a working version of lirc-0.8.2

I have created a .dsl for it but it keeps freezing after I load it. I think because it is trying to load modules into /lib. I know I will need to add additional libraries to be able to have this work properly as an extention.

bpsg119

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Posted: Oct. 18 2007,13:04

Quote (robc @ Oct. 17 2007,18:47)

That's great!

I'd sure be interested in whatever you do get, although I'm probably not much help as I really don't know what I'm doing.

Are you using a homebrew IR receiver? I had to also get setserial to make mine work. Like I said I have it talking, but there are still some issues that need to be worked out.

Juanito

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Posted: Oct. 18 2007,14:02

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I had to also get setserial to make mine work

- I don't think setserial is strictly necessary, it just makes things easier. With 2.4.26 you have to be careful to use irda in serial emulation mode rather than fir mode (at least for my laptop) otherwise dsl hangs. In 2.6.12 fir mode works fine.

Maybe you need irda-utils to make things work - I made an extension for this a while ago which is in the repository under testing. This post might also be useful

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