Infrared in Linux: LIRC July 15, 2008
Posted by idebian in Debian, GNU/Linux, Hardware.Tags: Apple IR, LIRC
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LIRC is the Linux Infrared Remote Control framework: it’s widely used to control the computer with an IR remote (connected either to a USB or a Serial Port) and to send IR commands, if the hardware supports this feature – unfortunately mine don’t 
In this post I’ll show how to configure the iMac Apple Remote to work in Linux: this will let us control our favorite media player (Totem, Xine, MPlayer, Rhythmbox) comfortably sitting on our sofà 
