Hi, Well, many hours struggling with the Lirc Mandrake packages I gave them up and installed the tar-ball. And now, finally, I got up Lirc running, however, it wasn't an easy trip neither.
Some experiences: - Mandrake 10 Lirc packages are totally messed up. There are a number of isses with them, don't even try before there's an upgrade. - Install the latest CVS-version of Lirc (I use 0.7.0-pre7). The lirc-0.6.6 version that is the latest downloadable version from the lirc.org site won't work as it does not compile due to a missing make-file. - You need the matching kernel source for the kernel that you are running (I guess you knew that one..) - You need the setserial package installed so that you can do setserial ttyS0 uart none. - The CVS-version of Lirc comes with updated docs (not the ones present on the web-site). - You need to hack your own rc script for lircd as it is not provided in the lirc contrib. I'll try extract the one present in the Mandrake package. Note: it requires setserial command. Useful websites: http://www.chat.carleton.ca/~kvomdorf/sager/sager.htm http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2003/04/1/53713 Regards, Magnus ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Molohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo 1.5.0 on Mandrake > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Magnus Karlsson > > Sent: 06 August 2004 15:16 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo 1.5.0 on Mandrake > > > > Hi Dischi, > > > > I got it working due to a splended rpm dep-list sent as reply > > to this mail. > > I wouldn't go that far ;-) > > > Now, I'm trying to get Lirc to work with Mandrake, not as > > easy as it seems.. > > > > However, I'll try to document my findings when I got > > everything working. > > I haven't looked into this but will be soon, afaik Mandrake have modified > lirc, not sure on this but I've seen some others talk of this causing > problems. You might save yourself some hastle and just grab the source and > install yourself, or maybe you wont have to. Any findings you make please do > pass them onto the list. > > > Rgds, > > Magnus > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dirk Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 3:09 PM > > Subject: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo 1.5.0 on Mandrake > > > > > > > "Magnus Karlsson" wrote: > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > > > [A little bit of off-topic, sorry about that...] > > > > I've tried out a number of Linux distros myself > > through-out the years. I > > > > found Redhat to be the one that suited me the best, and > > now they have > > > > discontinued the free version. Closest to this distro was > > Mandrake which > > has > > > > proven to be a very userfriendly distro which I need as I > > am using it as > > > > workstation at home. > > > > > > > > Now, when I now chose to try out freevo again, I had huge > > problems. I > > did > > > > not, and am not still, get anything to work not even the > > GUI. Now I am > > on > > > > the edge to install Fedora C2, but I read on their web > > page that they > > are > > > > once again merging with the redhat project, so I think > > that will be just > > a > > > > waste of time. > > > > > > > > [More in-topic...] > > > > So, what I need then is a clean dependency list for > > freevo. There should > > be > > > > a way (and instruction) to install freevo that is completely > > > > distro-independent. I installed freevo a few years back and it was > > (almost) > > > > hassle-free. > > > > > > > > So, if you have some tips, please shar'em. > > > > > > The INSTALL file inside freevo is a start. But all these have extra > > > deps. So if someone makes a nice dep tree, please send it. > > > > > > > > > Dischi > > > > > > -- > > > I love my work, I could sit and watch it all day long. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed > > the changes on > > > Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few > > weeks? Now, > > > one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open > > Source Technology > > > Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Freevo-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the > > changes on > > Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, > > one more big change to announce. 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