Monday, 7 July 2008

LIRC setup! (now in Fedora)

If you have an infra-red remote control, you can now use gnome-lirc-properties, available in Fedora Rawhide. There were quite a few changes and upstream fixes required to make it work, which makes this change blog-worthy.





Thanks to Murray and Mathias for the help getting the changes in upstream.
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3 comments:

  1. Unknown8 July 2008 at 16:02

    Very nice to see. Does it also work in FC9?

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  2. Anonymous8 July 2008 at 19:32

    But has lirc been merged in upstream's kernel yet?

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  3. Bastien Nocera13 July 2008 at 23:59

    Jakob, it doesn't work in FC9 I'm afraid, it needs an lirc that's too new. But running:
    yum --enablerepo=rawhide install gnome-lirc-properties
    will drag the dependencies. Easier than backporting given the few differences between the stacks.

    Anonymous, I have no idea whether it's merged upstream, or which part of lirc you're specifically talking about (I guess it's the receiver drivers).

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