Hello Slackers!
I've posted this thread in the Software forum also, but no-one seems to be able to answer me, so I thought that this forum could be more productive
Sooooo..... let this short and boring story begin!
I have a nice USB RF Remote Receiver and its Controller made by X10.
I haven't ever tried to install it nor to make it work with Linux but in the last days I have some spare time thus I'm doing my best to use my box without a keyboard and eventually without a mouse.
Now, I read some tutorials and compiled the ati_remote and ati_remote2 into the kernel; after that I ran xev and started randomly pressing buttons on the remote: "bingo! It was showing the keycodes!"!
Well, now I knew the system was receiving the radio signals sent by the remote control but a new problem came in: how to make it interact with the box?
At first I thought I could use Lineakd thing but when I installed it I didn't know how to manage to get it work, the only instructions I found were written in German (ps: anyone from Germany that can translate that page for me? ), then I thought of Lirc and its KDE's implementation called "Lirc Server", that would have allowed me to to almost everything in few and simple steps!
But, when I started compiling Lirc-0.80 it gave me an error:
Code:
/home/thug/Desktop/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_atiusb/lirc_atiusb.c:1183: error: unknown field `owner' specified in initializer /home/thug/Desktop/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_atiusb/lirc_atiusb.c:1183: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type make[5]: *** [/home/thug/Desktop/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_atiusb/lirc_atiusb.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [_module_/home/thug/Desktop/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_atiusb] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.17.1' make[3]: *** [lirc_atiusb.o] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/thug/Desktop/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_atiusb' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/thug/Desktop/lirc-0.8.0/drivers' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/thug/Desktop/lirc-0.8.0' make: *** [all] Error 2
so I couldn't go on with the installation...
Is there any way to fix this error? I tried also to install a previuos version but it didn't work.
Any idea about how to get Lirc working or to get my remote operative under Linux?
(I'm using Slackware 10.2, KDE 3.5.2, Kernel-2.6.17.1, a lot of coffee )
