Use XdTV with a remote control:

With XdTV, you can also use your remote control. To use it, you just have to install an external software called Lirc.

This software supports a lot of TV cards and remote controls. Here is its web site:
 http://www.lirc.org/

Into the XdTV tarball you will find some configuration files for Miro, Hauppauge, Animax and WinfastTv 2000 TV cards.

Note for Mandrake user: Lirc configuration file (lircd) can be found into the /etc/sysconfig folder.
An example of such configuration file for Pinnacle card (com2):

DRIVER=pinsys
 # Hardware driver module to load
 HWMOD=serial
 
 # The device node that communicates with the IR device.
 
 # with devfs enabled
 DEVICE=/dev/ttyS1
 
 # without devfs
 #DEVICE=/dev/lirc
 
 # COM2 (/dev/ttyS1)
 COM_PORT=/dev/ttyS1
 DRIVER_OPTS="irq=3 io=0x2f8"

 


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