Comment 21 for bug 204960

Ari

Spectacular explanation. Exactly what I was looking to hear before making
changes to this. In a future lirc upload i'll install your FDI file by
default then.

Regards

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 13:59, Ari <email address hidden> wrote:

> Mario: without LIRC, the remote acts as normal keypresses (like if it
> were the PC's keyboard), i.e. if you open a terminal and press the "1"
> key, you see a "1" char entered in the terminal, which is essentially
> useless.
>
> I've run mythTV in the past and I now run Elisa and both work fine (and
> require) their LIRC plugin in order to work properly with this remote.
>
> As far as I have explored linux media center solutions (and I did
> explore this) I haven't run into any case in which you would have remote
> control support without LIRC. The use of linux-input-layer functionality
> is pretty much useless without a proper way to communicating to the
> Media Center app that is distinguishable from "keyboard entries to the
> focused application window", which is what LIRC provides in this case.
>
> linux-input-layer just helps LIRC get the remote events from whatever
> infrared chipset without having to deal with the chipset itself.
>
> As far as I know mythbuntu uses MythTV which uses LIRC so there should
> be no problems on that end, on the contrary, more users will get the
> remote working out of the box.
>
> --
> [Hardy] Lirc devinput (linux-input-layer) broken
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204960
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Mario Limonciello
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