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 PROTECTED]> 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 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of MythTV > Ubuntu Maintainers, which is subscribed to lirc in ubuntu. > -- Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [Hardy] Lirc devinput (linux-input-layer) broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
