LIRC with Streamzap

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 09:26 -0600, Peter Hutnick wrote:

> I wrote a while back about trying to get a streamzap remote working with FC3.
> 
> Ville Skyttä seemed hopeful that support for streamzap would be doable
> in FC4 extras.  Is that still the case?

Yes, it's doable in FC4 Extras, but only when there's consensus how to
package and ship kernel module packages, and the required infrastructure
bits (build system, yum) have been modified to support that.  There was
a lot of discussion about this on the fedora-packaging list a while
back, but it appears to be stalled, with no definite conclusion.

In the meantime, you should be able to build the LIRC kernel module
package locally (which does not yet support even the agreed bits of the
kernel module packaging discussions, but should get you started): grab
the lirc source rpm from the FC-4 or devel repository, install
kernel-devel for your kernel, and do a

   rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 --with modules lirc*.src.rpm

If you're not building for the currently running kernel, add also 

  --define "kernel $kver"

where $kver is the "uname -r" output of the kernel you wish to build
for.  And tune the --target arch above according to the arch of the
kernel you're running, if not i686.  This should produce a
kernel-module-lirc-$uname package.  But be aware that this is not much
tested at all; bug reports -> bugzilla.redhat.com.