On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:31:27AM +0100, Mattias Nissler wrote: > I just got my new USB DVB-T dongle, which features an IR receiver and > comes with a remote. It sort of works, but I have the following problem: > My X server is configured to use evdev for all its input. This is fine > also for the remote, since the kernel generates key input events for all > buttons I can press on the remote (checked that with the input-events > utility). However, xorg's evdev input driver currently drops all > keyboard events with code < 255 (I've checked input-evdev-2.0.7, which > I'm running, but the code seems to be the same for the current master > branch). Thus, the buttons that happen to generate linux input keys with > code > 255 do not show up in the X server, since input-evdev discards > them (at least it prints a message in the log when doing so). > > Question is why this is the case and what can be done to overcome this > situation. Anyone have patches/workarounds for this problem or an idea > how to solve this?
It will be solved with Xi 2 or 3, but that will still require all clients to upgrade before we can actually deliver any events; currently, the X protocol limits us to 255 keycodes. Cheers, Daniel
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