I demand that David Barker may or may not have written... >> I demand that David Barker may or may not have top-posted... [snip] >>> Now I compiled it myself it doesn't really matter anyway, thanks though. >> This is still a little odd. I don't see anything in there which would >> cause vdr's LIRC support (when enabled) to fail unless lircd isn't >> running; with my build of 1.3.24, it just works. >> (I'm assuming that you got source for 1.2.6-12, 1.2.6-13 or my 1.3.24-1 >> via apt-get and that you rebuilt the packages by running 'debuild binary' >> or otherwise using the debian/rules file.) >> BTW, don't top-post. Don't quote signatures or attachments (unless you're >> specifically referring to them)... > Sorry I don't know what top-posting is so if I am doing it again I > apologise. You did: it's the putting of *all* of the new text above the quoted text. You've also quoted everything (including my .sig) again; that's also considered to be bad practice. > Anyway I didn't use apt-get to get the source or anything debian specific, > I just downloaded the source of the vdr homepage and compiled it the normal > way. I think there is somthing wrong with the debian package because after > compiling it myself it worked fine no problems. <fiddles about a bit in a chroot> Hmm. 1.2.6-13 "works" here with LIRC - it starts up happily then just sits there waiting for input which (apparently) never arrives, although that /could/ be a lircd problem. It definitely works in daemon mode. [snip .sig - *don't* quote it!] -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> Brought to you by the Mother of all Messages.