Monday, August 17, 2009

FC11 update broke support for lirc

This applies to kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11 for both 64 and 32 bit releases.

Basically the release lost the lirc driver due to a build error. The symptoms would be that your IR receiver would be recognized as a USB device but the lirc daemon wont be able to talk to it. /var/log/messages would show error message saying /dev/lirc missing.

You can track updates to it in the following bug request.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517765

Note: This was fixed in the next kernel update