Infrared

[Vadim Peretokin]

Hi all,

Just signed up for the list, so I believe this is the right place to address
the issue, but if no, sorry then, ignore this email.

Today I've remembered that I've got an infrared port on my ThinkPad T40. I
don't know how to use it, but first thing first, I went to Hardware
information, just to make sure that Ubuntu knows that I've got one. It did,
excellent. So then I pressed the F1 button, searched for "infrared", and
got... "zarrooo" results. Oh well. Off we go to help.ubuntu.com. Searched
for infrared again, nada. That's weird. Went to the Ubuntu docs project on
launchpad, and still nothing on infrared.

=(.

Searching on Launchpad itself for infrared led me to LIRC (Linux Infrared
Remote Control), setting up which doesn't look too easy, but that's another
point altogether.

I tried then add/remove at least, found IRKick, which it labels itself as a
front-end for LIRC... I've installed that, but it looks like it wants lirc
up first.

Anyway, that's a bit off topic, but my main point is - is it possible to
create some kind of article in built-in help that gives indication to a user
that infrared is usable in ubuntu?

Thank you!
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