[MPlayer-users] Help setting up lirc.

[Peace Monk]

Hello,  

This may not be the best place to post my question, but I am assuming
many who use mplayer have already got lirc working to use remotes.

I bought a prebuilt serial ir reciever from ebay for my pc.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5116733546

I have mandrake 10 with kernel 2.6.7.  Downloaded lirc-0.6.6 but I
could not compile it since it was made for 2.4 kernel?  I then applied
a patch for 2.6.5 kernel (lirc-2.6.5-20040404). Compiled,
and loaded the lirc_serial module.

Now I have the following devices :
/dev/lirc/lirc0

I have the following modules loaded.
lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_serial            12896  0
lirc_dev               13320  2 lirc_serial

I am able to start the lircd service.
service lircd start
Starting Linux Infrared Remote Control daemon:                  [  OK  ]

I then tried to load xmode2 with -d /dev/lirc/lirc0 .  The  xwindow
loads up, but I dont see any data when I press keys in a remote.

Here is my  /etc/sysconfig/lircd
DRIVER=default
HWMOD=lirc_serial
DEVICE=/dev/lirc/lirc0
COM_PORT=/dev/ttyS0
DRIVER_OPTS="irq=4 io=0x3f8"


I spent a lot of time on the internet, and I get conflicting
directions from different places.  I would appreciate if anyone can guide
me to the right info for a serial ir reciever for 2.6 kernel.

Regards,
Monk.