LIRC not working with LMDE

[rindi]

Hi,

I'm having problems getting LIRC working on LMDE (32 bit). If I compare the difference with Linux Mint based on Ubuntu (latest version where LIRC works more or less "Out-of-the-Box"), there is a kernel module missing, ir-core.ko, which I guess is needed for LIRC. I eventually want to use LMDE to setup a media-center PC running freevo and tvtime as tv program, and a remote control to manage the thing. Compared with Ubuntu based Mint, tvtime seems to run smoother on LMDE as it seems to be less resource hungry on the hardware I'm using (a 1GHz P-III, so it's not the newest box). Another thing I like about LMDE is that it is a running release.

Now I could probably get LIRC running if I install it from scratch from the sources and compile the kernel modules, but that would probably mean that whenever a kernel update is delivered through apt, I would have to build those modules again, and that would first be too much work, and it would make the running release part uninteresting.

[Justin Krehel (jkrehel)]

Ikey,

Can you check this out? I don't deal much with IR and wonder if there is something patched in Ubuntu that Debian doesn't have.

Thanks

Justin

[Max (archerseven+mlp)]

Many issues seem to have arrived with some changes they did to the way the modules are handled. I don't understand them nor do I have a fix, but LIRC works in a remarkably different fashion now than the documentation implies, in my experience, and though the modules seem to be loaded (I can get feedback from /dev/input/eventX) I can't get LIRC to communicate with my actual IR devices.