Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Long Slog: Unleash the photons!

Time to get the remote control working.

I followed the Gentoo LIRC wiki page, supplemented by the MythTV LIRC wiki page. I have a "Windows MCE" remote that came with my old Hauppauge USB WinTV receiver, which uses the "mceusb2" driver. So, the procedure for Gentoo is:


  • add LIRC_DEVICES="mceusb2" to /etc/make.conf.
  • emerge lirc
  • modprobe lirc_mceusb2
  • sudo echo lirc_mceusb2 >> /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6


It worked after following these steps, although it wasn't very clear from the Gentoo wiki page that I would need to load a kernel module (the way I read it was that this was only needed in certain special circumstances).

[Edit: removed bitching about it not "just working"...getting old, Dr. Harris!]

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