Bug 60110 – add streamzap pc remote to supported hardware drivers

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Peter Willis 2004-08-11 19:45:19 UTC]

I just noticed my Streamzap PC Remote wasn't supported under Gentoo's lirc ebuild. There is a patch maintained at sourceforge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/szremote/> which adds support for this USB remote to the current CVS snapshots of lirc. Most people would need to modify their ebuilds to get this functionality, so adding it into the main ebuild would save a lot of time. They sell this remote at ThinkGeek, btw <http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5a20/>.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add patch to main source directory.
2. Run autogen.sh to add support for the driver to the rest of the configure/makefile scripts.
3. Configure for the streamzap driver & install as normal.

Actual Results:  
I can use the remote! ;)

Expected Results:  
Remote works flawlessly.

I updated the patch to the latest cvs snapshot of lirc (0.7.0pre7) so it does
work; I added autogen.sh in though since it's necessary to rebuild the
configure/Makefiles to work with the new patch, so if there is some kind of
problem in building/installing lirc after adding this patch it may be due to the
autogen.sh script and fixing/removing it may help.

[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-08-26 02:29:14 UTC]

can you please post a patch to the ebuild with all neccessary files?

[Comment 2 Peter Willis 2004-08-26 12:07:20 UTC]

Created attachment 38256 [details, diff]
streamzap patches for lirc-0.7.0pre7

this can be directly patched into lirc-0.7.0pre7, but ./autogen.sh is needed to
be run before configure, make, make install.

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-09-08 09:16:13 UTC]

will add it soon, do you know if the authors contacted the lirc developers to include it in the main distribution

[Comment 4 Peter Willis 2004-09-08 09:23:44 UTC]

months and months ago. as far as i know they were ignored, and they haven't churned out a stable release in a really long time. though if we could get it into their actual dev trees that would make things much easier... until then i can keep filing bugs when i have new versions of the patch ready... i guess i should just monitor their website and check for new snapshot releases

[Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-09-16 08:20:53 UTC]

finally added to lirc-0.7.0_pre7-r1 :)

[Comment 6 Peter Willis 2004-09-16 11:26:49 UTC]

thanks very much!!

FYI, in the ebuild there is a commented-out list of driver names and i can't see streamzap in there... just so you know ;)

[Comment 7 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-09-17 11:30:07 UTC]

now you can see it ;)