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The needed tools will be installed.
The needed tools will be installed.
=== Download, compile and install the driver. ===
=== Download, compile and install the driver. ===
You need to download the latest driver from Mark's site. As at the time I am writing (8 April 2013) the latest is 4.5. Go to his website and get the most recent, and change the numbers in my example if there is a lter version.
You need to download the latest driver from Mark's site. As at the time I am writing (8 April 2013) the latest is 4.6. Go to his website and get the most recent, and change the numbers in my example if there is a lter version.
<source lang="bash">
<source lang="bash">
   $ cd ~/Downloads
   $ cd ~/Downloads
   $ wget http://rtr.ca/sapphire_remote/sapphire-4.5.tar.gz
   $ wget http://rtr.ca/sapphire_remote/sapphire-4.5.tar.gz
   $ tar xzvf sapphire-4.5.tar.gz
   $ tar xzvf sapphire-4.6.tar.gz
   $ cd sapphire-4.5
   $ cd sapphire-4.6
   $ sudo make install
   $ sudo make install
</source>
</source>
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/usr/local/bin/sapphire_keymap.sh /etc/sapphire/keymap.default
/usr/local/bin/sapphire_keymap.sh /etc/sapphire/keymap.default
</source>
</source>
Starting at version 4.6 the following step (making /proc/sapphire world writable) is no longer necessary. It is left here for users of earlier versions.


For this to work you need to change permissions on /proc/sapphire, which I do via a simple line in /etc/rc.local:
For this to work you need to change permissions on /proc/sapphire, which I do via a simple line in /etc/rc.local:

Revision as of 22:04, 9 April 2013

This page is currently a work in progress. You can see some other info here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=159433&pid=1368998#pid1368998 and I'll try and create some generic info for the wiki.--Nickr 03:03, 25 March 2013 (EDT)