RE: mceusb2 support for Microsoft Remote Keyboard?

[Buzz <bu...@os...>]

> When I cat the device, it spits out some junk and then stops. 
>  `tail -f` doesn't seem to work any better.

Well, that's a good sign, it means the hardware is working.

> However, once I figured out how to use irrecord, it does look 
> like I might be able to come up with something, assuming I 
> can actually make it all the way through (I think I was 
> moving too slowly and it kept exiting).  Will try over my 
> lunch break since I really shouldn't be playing with this 
> when I'm supposed to be working.

Good.  If it's aborting/exiting on you, then you may find you can create a
few partial lircd.conf files, and manually edit them together for a complete
config file solution.

> 
> Anyway, assuming this all works, is there anything special I 
> need to know to configure mouse events (the kb has an 
> integrated mouse)?  Also, is there a way to have lirc send 
> some events as if it was a normal /dev/input type keyboard?

Keyboard with integrated mouse?   Interesting.    Well, perhaps you can get
the integrated mouse to be detected as "keystrokes" while doing irrecord
(scroll up = keypress, scroll down = anotherkeypress, etc), and then have
these "keystrokes" passed to "lircmd" (the lirc mouse daemon) to interpres
these as X-windows mouse events?  That's just a guess though.   YMMV.   Let
us now how you go.


Buzz.