Re: LIRC on CentOS 6

On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 13:02 -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 
> On 8/26/2012 11:46 PM, James B. Huber wrote:
> > Yes, I am using 0.8.7-88 under obth real RHEL 6.3 and CentOS, both
> > x86_64. I couldn't make the stuff from EPEL work.
> >
> > Guess my first question would be (and I am assuming you've stuffed the
> > entries from your previous working config's) are you sure the driver for
> > the particular hardware you need/want is actually built in their set ?
> >
> > And FWIW, I'm using with mythtv 0.24.3 from atrpms as well.
> >
> > Jim
> 
> After getting nowhere trying to get 0.9.0 running, I'm back to Axel's 
> 0.8.7 packages. I even tried posting to the lirc list with no answer.
> 
> It wasn't a total loss, this struggle let me know about the existence of 
> the new in-kernel mceusb driver. The fix was to remove that driver then 
> reload lirc_mceusb. Now my custom configurations are working with irw.
> 
> So thanks Jim for letting me know you got 0.8.7 working.
> 
> I just need to figure out how to blacklist mceusb.

Look in /etc/modprobe.d either drop your own file in there or add to
blacklist.conf (just add the line "blacklist mceusb")....