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pseb

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From: Marburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-09-27

Posts: 85

LIRC not working on Thinkpad 600e

Hi,
I recently bought a simple infrared-receiver (attached to the serial port - ttyS0). It works very well with my Desktop (runnung arch linux), but, unfortunately, not with my old thinkpad (also running arch).
I followed the lirc-article from the wiki. i had to add the line

install lirc_serial /usr/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/modprobe -- ignore-install lirc_serial;

to /etc/modprobe.conf, and now modprobe lirc_serial works and the lirc_serial module is shown by lsmod. my config file for my remote control works on my desktop, so i think, it should work on my thinkpad, too. i start the lircd-daemon, but when i test my remote control with irw, it shows no reaction and no error message.
i searched the forums, there are some similar (or almost the same problems) described, but nu solution...
oh, and i checked the serial port with the ps2 dos utility -> serial port is enabled.
well...maybe someone has an idea, what's going wrong? would be great, cos i'd like to use my thinkpad as a music-box ;-)
thx,
pseb