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@@ -2,41 +2,5 @@ LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of
many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. LIRC is released under
the GNU General Public License. It consists of lircd and lircmd daemons.
-Configuring lircd (the LIRC daemon)
-
- 1. Check if there is already a config file in /etc/lircd.conf. If not,
- 2. Check if there is a config file available for your remote control at
- the LIRC homepage and if so, copy it to /etc/lircd.conf. If not,
- 3. Start irrecord (close all applications that access /dev/lirc first)
- and follow the instructions given to you by this program. Copy the
- resulting file to /etc/lircd.conf. If you have trouble creating a
- working config file, please read the chapter about adding new remote
- controls -- http://www.lirc.org/html/help.html#new_remote
-
-Q: How can I use the infrared remote shipped with the tv card ?
-
-In the 2.6 kernels the remote simply is registered as keyboard input device
-within the linux input layer. When using the saa7134 driver it "just works",
-with bttv you'll have to load either ir-kbd-gpio or ir-kbd-i2c depending on
-your TV card. If in doubt just try both. Have a look at /proc/bus/input/devices
-file to see whenever the device is present or not.
-
-With the driver loaded the IR just works like a additional keyboard. The numbers
-are mapped to the keypad keys. Depending on the X-Servers keyboard configuration
-(try to pick a multimedia keyboard) other keys like the ones for volume control
-might work too.
-
-Q: But I want use lircd for IR input.
-
-No problem, you can do that too:
-
- 1. Get a recent lircd version with linux input layer support. The 0.6.6
- release is too old, a cvs snapshot or a 0.7 pre-release should do. You
- only need to build the lircd daemon + tools, no lirc kernel drivers
- needed. Take care that the dev/input driver is included when building
- lircd (either ./configure --with-driver=any to simply include all drivers
- or --with-driver=devinput).
- 2. Load the evdev module (which is part of the linux input layer). Check
- /proc/bus/input/devices to see which eventn device the IR input device has.
- 3. Start the daemon this way:
- /usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/eventn.
+See README.SLACKWARE (also installed with the package documentation) for
+configuration hints.