Redesigned lirc-ebuild (Version 0.8.0-r1) The lirc-ebuild got a rewrite these days. The old hackish LIRC_OPTS way of configuring had to make way for the new LIRC_DEVICES way. LIRC_DEVICES works similar to VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES for the newer xorg-ebuilds. Up to app-misc/lirc-0.8.0: LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=serial --with-transmitter" From app-misc/lirc-0.8.0-r1 on: LIRC_DEVICES="serial" USE="transmitter" See the output of "emerge -pv lirc" for all possible devices. The ebuild is not yet perfect, as not every lirc-driver has been checked in all deep for all its dependencies. If you find missing lirc-drivers / dependencies, give feedback. The other minor drawback is that only one driver can be compiled in at a time, but that limitation already existed within the old ebuilds, only that there you silently got only one driver-module compiled, but no error message. Matthias Schwarzott