irw works fine, but irxevent doesn't?

[Mike B. <ip...@sn...>]

Does anyone know why irw seems to work fine when I press buttons on the
remote, however when I run irxevent (even as root), it doesn't seem to
work at all. By not working, its not printing keys on the screen when
the button is pressed on the remote. (ie: button 5) As well in MythTV,
the remote doesn't work.

However, when I strace irxevent, it shows its getting the button press.

I tried using "RootWindow" and "CurrentWindow" in the .lircrc file,
neither made a difference.

I tried kernel 2.6.2 with LIRC 0.7.0pre1 (which currently works using my
WinFast2000 remote), and 2.4.25 with LIRC 0.6.6. Both do exactly the
same thing.

strace output (notice at the bottom, I pressed buttons: 1,2,3,4,5,6):

socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 4
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="/tmp/.lircd"}, 110) = 0
open("/root/.lircrc", O_RDONLY)         = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1655, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0x40018000
read(5, "begin\n    prog = irxevent\n    button = Power Quit\n    config
= Key Escape RootWindow\n    repeat = 1\nend\n
\nbegin\n    prog = irxevent\n    button = Pause\n    config = Key p
RootWindow\n    repeat = 1\nend\n\nbegin\n    prog
 = irxevent\n    button = ChanUp\n    config = Key Up RootWindow\n   
repeat = 1\nend\n\nbegin\n    prog = irxevent\n
  button = ChanDown\n    config = Key Down RootWindow\n    repeat =
1\nend\n\nbegin\n    prog = irxevent\n    button =
Up\n    config = Key Page_Up RootWindow\n    repeat =
1\nend\n\nbegin\n    prog = irxevent\n    button = Down\n    conf
ig = Key Page_Down RootWindow\n    repeat = 1\nend\n\nbegin\n    prog =
irxevent\n    button = Right\n    config = Key
7 RootWindow\n    repeat = 1\nend\n\nbegin\n    prog = irxevent\n   
button = Left\n    config = Key 1 RootWindow\n
repeat = 1\nend\n\nbegin\n    prog = irxevent\n    button = Guide
Menu\n    config = Key m RootWindow\n    repeat = 1\n
end\n\nbegin\n    prog = irxevent\n    button = OK Ent\n    config = Key
KP_Enter RootWindow\n    repeat = 1\nend\n\nbe
gin\n    prog = irxevent\n    butt"..., 4096) = 1655
read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(5)                                = 0
munmap(0x40018000, 4096)                = 0
read(4, "0000000001fc708f 00 1 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fc708f 01 1 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fcb04f 00 2 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fcb04f 01 2 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fc30cf 00 3 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fc30cf 01 3 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fc6a95 00 4 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fc6a95 01 4 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fcaa55 00 5 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fcaa55 01 5 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fc2ad5 00 6 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, "0000000001fc2ad5 01 6 lircd.conf\n", 100) = 33
read(4, 0x804ce80, 100)                 = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be
restarted)
--- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGINT +++

Thanks.

-- 
Mike <ip...@sn...>