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author Murat D. Kadirov <banderols@gmail.com>2010-05-13 00:40:51 +0200
committer Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2010-05-13 00:40:51 +0200
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-LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of
-many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. LIRC is released under
-the GNU General Public License. It consists of lircd and lircmd daemons.
+LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many
+(but not all) commonly used remote controls.
-See README.SLACKWARE (also installed with the package documentation) for
-configuration hints.
+Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial or
+parallel port. Current versions of LIRC also support a variety of other
+hardware.
+
+NOTE: for FTDI chips support you need install libftdi and ftdi_eeprom from
+http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/ before run slackbuild.