[mythtv-users] Many keyboard commands don't work (problem 1 of 2)

[Tom Lichti]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On May 1, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
>
>   
>> Rich Kadel wrote:
>>     
>>> Problem 2 of 2 is resolved (thanks to Brian).  My remote works as  
>>> well
>>> as the keyboard (which is not saying much).  Still left with the
>>> problem that most of the keyboard/remote commands are non-responsive.
>>> Still cannot channel up/down or volume up/down, or change channel to
>>> 2-digit channels (as soon as I press a number, it changes to the
>>> channel of that single digit number, so 27 takes me to channel 2 and
>>> then channel 7).
>>>
>>> Still cannot toggle on closed captioning either.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>       
>> It sounds like you don't have the correct mapping for the keys in the
>> MythTV lircrc file. When you run irw, does it show the right keys when
>> you press all the buttons on the remote? If so, it's a mapping  
>> problem,
>> if not, then you have a lircd.conf problem.
>>     
>
> But he's saying he has the same problem with the keyboard and the  
> remote, IOTW they both mis-behave in the same way. That doesn't sound  
> like an lircd.conf problem to me (although your suggested test is  
> still a good idea).
>
> Sound like a keyboard problem itself, are there any messages in your  
> boot logs about keyboards that look strange? Does the keyboard work  
> normally with other programs (like a terminal)? Does it only behave  
> strangely in X ? Is it possibly a non-standard keyboard??
>
> Questions, questions, but they always seem to come before answers :-)
>   
I think he got it figured out, the thread got broken and I didn't see 
the other messages until after I replied to this one.

Tom