Hello all, thanks for the help so far.
I now have a working remote control both in kbd and lirc, running on
2.4.22 w/kraxel patches and CVS snapshot 101603. There are really only
two issues that I have to sort out before everything is perfect, and
they are as follows:
- Lirc CVS version is reading values out of /dev/input/event0, but it's
only reading one value at a time. Each button press on the remote
generates two events, of which the second one seems to be the button
release. However, the button up event stays on the stack until next time
I press a button, so that when lircd reads the new value it gets the
button up event instead, while the new button goes to the top of the
stack. And the third time I press a button, the second button is popped
off and sent to the client app .. forcing me to do delayed navigation by
predicting the required buttons in advance.. you see the problem I
presume ;)
Now, I am not a programmer and definitely not familiar with the inner
workings of evdev modules, however if I were to speculate I'd guess that
every button press generates an event that informs the evdev-aware
client that a new event is on the stack. Lircd in its ignorance then
only reads the first value off the stack and either recognizes this as a
known eventcode or discards it and logs a warning. I am awaiting a
response to a similar query on the lirc mailing list, however there may
not be any good ways of solving this from within lirc so I am looking
for a way to make saa7134-input.c only send the button down events, if
possible. Other suggestions are of course welcome.
- Disregarding the dysfunctional aspects of the current situation there
still remains the problem of having a keyboard event generated in
addition to a lirc event, when using apps that support both. Especially
the arrow keys are hard to use, you end up only being able to navigate
to itens with an odd number (starting at one and adding two, four etc).
Can the keyboard emulation be turned off by a module parameter? if not,
which lines do I comment out to plug this up for the time being?
Cheers,
Ole Andre
