On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 at 22:07:29, Ike Devolder wrote:
[...] I have an Infra-Red device but since more than a year (if it's not longer) I'm no longer needing lircd at all, my IR device is recognized just fine as a keyboard/mouse.
If there is noone else having a IR controlled system I can take a look to get lircd up and running again and see if it behaves.
Thanks you for your offer. However, I just received the following report from an Arch user: Forwarded message from Ole Ernst (2014-08-04 22:57:19):
Am 04.08.2014 um 15:44 schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
Also, unfortunately, I do not own an infra-red device and even though 0.9.1 is just a maintenance release, it would be great if someone could check whether everything still works as expected. I am going to move lirc and lirc-utils to [testing] when the kernel rebuilds are moved to the stable repositories.
I can confirm the latest PKGBUILD adapted to 3.15 works a treat for me on an Acer Aspire 5920G, which has an IR receiver using the wpc8769l module. It actually didn't work with 1:0.9.0-76 and older versions (see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158343). Needless to say I'm very pleased with the new release.
Cheers, Ole
Given that this confirms that both the lirc and the lirc-utils packages work, there is no need for you to go through the hassle of setting up lircd. Both packages will also stay in [testing] for a while, so that people have a chance to file bug reports.