[vdr] Re: Easiest way for VDR 1.3x with Suse 9.2?

[Ari Huttunen <hagrid@saunalahti.fi>]

Ludwig Nussel wrote:

> > Lirc is more difficult, I've just spent hours on it. I had to recompile the 
> > kernel after removing the Lirc drivers, uninstall Suse Lirc and install 
> >    
> What remote do you have? If it's a serial one read
> /usr/share/doc/packages/lirc/README.SUSE first.
>  
That document works excellenty. I got Lirc working in ten minutes, 
although I had a configuration file for the remote already.

This feels odd, VDR *and* Lirc working, and not a single kernel 
recompilation needed so far.. I think this sort of proves this 
linux-thing is easy enough for a grandma to set up. :-)

>  
> > 0.7.0pre8 from the Lirc site. Add lirc to the dependencies after vdr 
> > in /etc/init.d/.depend.start or Suse will insist on starting Lirc after vdr.
> >    
> Modifying that file is useless, it's autogenerated and will be
> overwritten by insserv. The correct fix is to add the line
>
> # Should-Start:      lirc
>
> to /etc/init.d/vdr. Alternatively use vdr from the supplementary
> directory on ftp.suse.com, it's already fixed in that version.
>  
That didn't quite work for me for some reason, maybe because I did it 
after using the chkconfig commands. I ended up renaming the links in 
/etc/init.d/rc5.d/ so the start order gets changed.

Now everything works, except I don't have EPG data. The file's almost 
empty, just listing the channels I've visited. Pretty inconvenient.

Ari Huttunen