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

[Rich Kadel]

Closed captioning is working.  I found an older post that said to
change the VBI setting (in myth-setup) to NTSC Closed Caption.

Thanks...


On 5/1/06, Rich Kadel <rich.kadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. Thanks.  The problem was with OSD actually.  I had switched to
> abstractosd once (maybe in a different version of Myth than I'm using
> now), and abstractosd didn't work in my current version.  Once someone
> pointed me to that as the possible problem, I switched back to
> defaultosd and everything worked fine (except I don't see closed
> caption yet...still working that problem).
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
> On 5/1/06, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
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