Re: One keypress generates two events

[Paulo C. <pr...@gm...>]

Follow this thread were I discuss the problem.

http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-devel/2006-November/001352.html

or, if you read portuguese,

http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/roma/LCG_computadores.html#captura

/Paulo Roma.

On 11/19/06, Jon Foster <jo...@jo...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> > On 10 Nov 2006 08:01:00 +0000
> > li...@ba... (Christoph Bartelmus) wrote:
> >> You'll have to disable the kernel IR driver.
> > I don't understand. Look:
> >
> [...]
> > jorge@jorge06 /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 $ lsmod
> > Module                  Size  Used by
> > loop                   12104  0
> > lirc_gpio               8496  0
> > lirc_dev               11940  1 lirc_gpio
> > tuner                  50860  0
> > tda9887                15632  0
> > tvaudio                21468  0
> > bttv                  157812  2 lirc_gpio
> > video_buf              19844  1 bttv
> > firmware_class          7552  1 bttv
> > ir_common              23492  1 bttv
> > btcx_risc               3912  1 bttv
> > tveeprom               13264  1 bttv
> > snd_bt87x              11080  0
> >
> > I don't see any IR driver that I can disable. There is this
> > ir_common, but it is needed by bttv.
>
> Yep, the "bttv" driver handles all the functions of the
> card - video and IR input.  Your options seem to be either
> using the bttv driver instead of the LIRC kernel module, or
> hacking the bttv driver source code to take out the IR part.
>
> Since the built in bttv driver works, it would probably be simplest
> to use it.  See my other mail - quoted here for your convenience:
>
> > [...] you might try the evtest.c program. (Google for evtest.c,
> > e.g. http://game-sat.com/~brian/Howtos/evtest.c).
> >
> > You could configure Lirc to get it's input using the "devinput" driver
> > (if you can get this to work).  This should request exclusive access to
> > the remote control via the Linux Input API, i.e. the IR keystrokes will
> > only go to Lirc and not the console.  (But note that "lircd" only
> > requests exclusive access when both "lircd" and a LIRC client such as
> > irxevent are running).
> >
> > As this driver is different you will probably find you need to re-learn
> > your remote control using irrecord.  This driver doesn't need any Lirc
> > kernel modules.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jon Foster
>
>
>
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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ