Re: lirc kernel 2.6.0-test7 patch & hauppauge remote

[Stefan L. <hoi...@gm...>]

Jim Faulkner wrote:
> Thanks for your help.  Your suggestions worked and your lircd.conf is
> actually a perfect match for my remote.
> 
> I have one more problem though.  Linux sees my remote buttons as
> keyboard keys, even though I just want specific programs to see my button
> presses.  So, for example, when I press a button to turn on tvime, a bunch
> of junk shows up in the terminal I am typing in.  How do I get Linux to
> ignore input from my remote?
> 

Hmm, I don't really know why you are seeing this junk. It doesn't happen 
on my system, as far as I can tell. At least not with the lirc-clients 
I'm using (mplayer, xmms, xawtv, irw), I don't have tvtime installed. 
The only odd thing I've got is that my caps-lock led lights up when I 
press VOL+ ;-)

I assume your symptoms originate from the design of the driver. It's 
written for the new generic linux input layer: the IR remote is treated 
like a keyboard by the kernel. So you could also use your remote without 
any lirc daemon, provided that the program you want to control reads 
commands from /dev/input/eventX by itself.

I suggest that you contact the author (Gerd Knorr) directly with your 
problem.

regards,
Stefan


> thanks,
> Jim Faulkner
>