<div>Ok, obviously i'm going nuts.</div>
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<div>Whoever is out there gaslighting me is doing one HECK of a good job at it.</div>
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<div>LIRC was working through MythTV as of 2 days ago. I swear when I set this up 2 months ago that I saw lirc_serial loaded in lsmod. </div>
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<div>Yet here I am, 1 yum upgrade later: lirc-kmdl* package does not exist. It's not in my yum archives, it's not installed in my RPM database, there's no lirc_serial anywhere on my system, it's not loaded in my lsmod, it doesn't exist in my /lib/modules directory. It also doesn't exist for my
2.6.16.2095 kernel, nor my 2.6.16.2133 kernel, both of which were WORKING with LIRC. </div>
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<div>ATRPMs doesn't carry any copies of this file, AT ALL that is for any kernel that I recognize (WTF is a cubbi_suspend2_8k kernel anyway?), not in their archives, not in their obsoleted packages, not in the base directory.
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<div>I've uninstalled and re-installed lirc (not libs, that pretty much takes out my entire system if I uninstall that thing) assuming, as the package description says, that it contains the driver files, which it does not...or they're on my system but being held invisible in a rift in the space/time continum by the little green goblins that run my life these days...
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<div>So 2 days ago I had a wife, 2 kids, 3 cats and a working installation of MythTV with a remote control that actually worked.</div>
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<div>Now, I have a wife, 2 kids, 3 cats and a working installation of MythTV with ABSOLUTELY NO TRACE of ever having had LIRC working. If I go hone tonight and find that I only have 1 cat or 1 kid i'm simply going to agree to go nuts and go try to find someplace more sane...like maybe a 10th dimension somewhere....
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<div>An internet search for lirc-kmdl and 1.2096 or 1.2133 contains absoltuely no files, as if there NEVER WAS a kernel driver package for LIRC for ANY installed kernel I have running now.</div>
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<div>When I check my Yum logs, sure enought I installed a lirc-kmdl package: Apr 26 02:21:27 Installed: lirc-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp.i686 0.8.1-cvs20060325<br>_57.rhfc5.at and sure enough it was removed (by yum): Jun 24 14:03:18 Erased:
lirc-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp, which I think is very rude as I still have kernel 2096 installed and working on my system.</div>
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<div>And to top it all off ATRPMS has a Fedora Core 6 directory right now....*cackle*</div>
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<div>Excuse me, I think the men with the little white coats are here for me...something about a padded cell and a nice enwrapping blanket....</div>
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<div>HELP!!!!!</div>
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<div>With a bit more seriousness how do I recover from this? There HAS to be a kernel driver module for a serial IR device out there somewhere? Where is it supposed to live now? In the lirc-0.81 package? And if so why isn't it being installed by YUM/RPM?
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<div>I have gone ahead and downloaded the lirc-0.8.1-cvs20060325_58.rhfc5.at.src.rpm from ATRPMS firguring i'd just go ahead and build my own. However using rpmbuild SPECS/lirc-cvs.spec gives me error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl lirc and rpmbuild --rebuild
lirc-0.8.1-cvs20060325_58.rhfc5.at.src.rpm gives me the same thing.<br> </div>
<div>and actually going into the SOURCE directory, into the package and running setup.sh (which seems to be the right procedure) produces the following error:</div>
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<div>Configuration: .setup.config, executable shell script: configure.sh<br>Starting the generated shell script which will call configure with the right<br>parameters...<br>configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh
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<div>So i'm lost, i'd prefer to get ahold of an RPM package so I don't have to perpetually re-build lirc, I can just use yum to upgrade it (if I ever decide to switch kernels again, which might never happen), but obviously since a pre-bult binary driver only exists for kernels i've never heard of i'd just be happy getting a lirc_serial.ko (or some such) stuck in /lib/modules somewhere (prefferably under the right kernel, but i'm starting to not get picky) through a make install process of some sort (hell i'll copy it myself if that will work :) )
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<div>Anyway, any help any of you could give me to get my remote back working again would be most appreciated. I can't IMAGINE there isn't an LIRC_SERIAL driver for 2.6.16-1.2133, EVERYONE has had to have been running that kernel for months prior to last weekends's
2.6.17 release.</div>
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<div>--Douglas Wagner</div>