LIRC module Debian packages for 2.6.27 kernels
by Russ on Nov.20, 2008, under Linux
“LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.”
It seems that any time I try to use the Debian LIRC modules source package, it is too old to build against the kernel I am trying to use. I have updated the 0.8.3 package currently found in Lenny and Sid to 0.8.4a. It will now build against Linux 2.6.27.
Source Packages
- lirc-modules-source_0.8.4a-1_all.deb
- lirc_0.8.4a-1_amd64.changes
- lirc_0.8.4a-1.dsc
- lirc_0.8.4a-1.diff.gz
- lirc_0.8.4a.orig.tar.bz2
Binary Packages
What I have built with the above source. Unlikely to be useful to you, but here you go anyway…
1 comment for this entry:
July 2nd, 2009 on 2:38 pm
Should you build again this module to be able to compile against latest sid’s 2.6.30, please drop me some lines…
I tried brute-forcing the 0.8.5 sources to make the deb (dropping patches) but I didn’t get it to compile, something related to :
hw_ftdi.c:54:18: error: ftdi.h: No such file or directory
hw_ftdi.c: In function ‘child_process’:
hw_ftdi.c:112: error: storage size of ‘ftdic’ isn’t known
I happen to need this module since evdev stopped supporting IR devices