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diff --git a/system/lirc/README b/system/lirc/README index 1bafc3649d..b064aa5530 100644 --- a/system/lirc/README +++ b/system/lirc/README @@ -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. |