Re: lirc and xbox remote

[Michael M. <mic...@gm...>]

Scott Brown wrote:

> Works perfectly under windows - but I would like to use it on linux.  When I
> plug it in the device manage in Ubuntu says its recognised it as a xpad and
> loaded the appropriate driver.

As far as I understand from a bit of googling, it should show up in
/proc/bus/input/devices (send the output of 
"cat /proc/bus/input/devices" if you are unsure).

> Lirc is installed but will not work with the hardware.

Probably it's not yet configured.

There's a lircd.conf file for the input layer in
<http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/linux-input-layer-lircd.conf> 
- download that file and name it /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

A working hardware.conf file for Ubuntu:

# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
# Arguments which will be used when launching lircd
LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
#START_LIRCMD=false

#Try to load appropriate kernel modules
LOAD_MODULES=evdev

# Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers.
DRIVER="dev/input"
# If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be
# automatically used instead
DEVICE="/dev/input/eventX"

MODULES="lirc_dev evdev"

# Default configuration files for your hardware if any
LIRCD_CONF="/etc/lirc/lircd.conf"
LIRCMD_CONF=""

########### end of /etc/lirc/hardware.conf ###########


Instead of 

DEVICE="/dev/input/eventX"

use the correct event device (see the output of 
"cat /proc/bus/input/devices").

Now

  /etc/init.d/lirc start

should work and you should see some output if you start "irw".


Regards...
		Michael