Re: Fw: How to get lircmd to work with Kubuntu 11.04 and kernel 2.6.38-8-generic?

[Douglas C. <dcl...@op...>]

On 2011-05-13 16:51, Krister Hallergard wrote:
> Hi,
> Am very grateful for the help I got to get lircd to work, Jarod and 
> Douglas, but thought that the Lirc Mouse problem merits its own post. 
> Am applying three scripts, the first two to start lircd - which work, 
> and the third to start lircmd - which does not work:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> sudo ir-keytable -c -w /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/haupp
> sudo ir-keytable --protocol=RC-5
> sudo rm /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
> sudo /usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event6 -n
>
> #! /bin/sh
> killall irexec
> killall irxevent
> irexec -d
> irxevent -d
>
OK, so the assumption is that is all working, although you don't 
"killall lircd" and you do run it with the "-n" flag which I would 
expect to stop there, but hey.

> #! /bin/sh
> sudo modprobe uinput
> sudo /usr/sbin/lircmd --uinput
>
> root@DESKTOP:/# dmesg |grep lirc
> [ 24.381982] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 250
> [ 24.586291] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (cx88xx) 
> registered at minor = 0
> [ 89.912147] input: lircmd as /devices/virtual/input/input7
> root@DESKTOP:/# ir-keytable
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event6) with:
> Driver cx88xx, table rc-hauppauge-new
> Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY LIRC
> Enabled protocols: RC-5
> Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 33 ms
>
> Before the upgrade from 10.10 the lircmd --uinput worked but not 
> anymore. Have the same lircd.conf, lircmd.conf and .lircrc as before 
> the upgrade. Would very much appreciate advice.
>
>
That all looks good, the assumption is that the kecodes from the 
keytable do not match the keycodes in the lircmd.conf file. So I thought 
that I would give it a try, after reading up on the lircmd stuff.

In one window I run:
# lircd -n -Hdevinput -d/dev/input/event2 
/usr/share/lirc/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput

In another window I run:
$ irw

and in a third I run:
$ sudo lircmd -nu lircmd.conf

So, what do I get? From the irw I get:
0000000080010200 00 KEY_NUMERIC_0 devinput
0000000080010200 00 KEY_NUMERIC_0 devinput
0000000080010191 00 KEY_BLUE devinput
0000000080010202 00 KEY_NUMERIC_2 devinput
0000000080010202 00 KEY_NUMERIC_2 devinput
0000000080010202 01 KEY_NUMERIC_2 devinput
0000000080010202 02 KEY_NUMERIC_2 devinput
0000000080010202 00 KEY_NUMERIC_2 devinput

Then I look in my lircmd.conf file and see:
MOVE_N  * KEY_2
and finally see that "KEY_2" != "KEY_NUMERIC_2" is staring me in the face.

I change the lircmd.conf /KEY_\(\d\)/KEY_NUMERIC_\1/ and restart lircmd 
as before. While I was in there I noticed that I had previously changed 
/ACTIVATE * KEY_BLUE/ACTIVATE * KEY_GREEN/ and so pressed KEY_GREEN and 
amazingly  ... as I pressed the "2" key the cursor moved up the screen.

So the whole file is:
#
# lircmd config file
#

PROTOCOL IntelliMouse
#PROTOCOL MouseSystems

# ACCELERATOR start max multiplier

ACCELERATOR 2 30 5

ACTIVATE * KEY_GREEN

MOVE_N  * KEY_NUMERIC_2
MOVE_NE * KEY_NUMERIC_3
MOVE_E  * KEY_NUMERIC_6
MOVE_SE * KEY_NUMERIC_9
MOVE_S  * KEY_NUMERIC_8
MOVE_SW * KEY_NUMERIC_7
MOVE_W  * KEY_NUMERIC_4
MOVE_NW * KEY_NUMERIC_1
#MOVE_N  * ARROW_UP
#MOVE_E  * ARROW_RIGHT
#MOVE_S  * ARROW_DOWN
#MOVE_W  * ARROW_LEFT
#MOVE_IN * CH_UP
#MOVE_OUT * CH_DOWN

BUTTON1_TOGGLE * KEY_NUMERIC_5
BUTTON2_TOGGLE * KEY_NUMERIC_0
BUTTON3_TOGGLE * KEY_STOP

BUTTON1_CLICK * KEY_OK
BUTTON1_CLICK * KEY_AUDIO
BUTTON3_CLICK * KEY_VIDEO

# BUTTONx_CLICK, BUTTONx_UP, BUTTONx_DOWN are also possible

and all of those keys have to match the keys that irw is kicking out 
when the buttons are pressed.

This is on Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.38-8-generic so it should 
work for you.

Douglas