[mythtv-users] Configuring mceusb for frontend with 3.0 kernel

[Kenneth Emerson]

I got the parts to build my first (separate) frontend for Christmas :-) .
 I spent most of the day Monday (close to 12 hours) reconfiguring my FE/BE
combo to allow for networking and, right or wrong, I chose to install
Ubuntu 11.10 on the new frontend (I'm running 10.4 on the backend).  I
still have to deal with the window manager issue, but that's just a minor
issue/irritation that I can figure out myself.  What I cannot figure out is
how to configure IR remotes with this new kernel.  It seems that everything
about IR is different )-: .

I've googled until I'm blue in the face and continue to find conflicting
information.  Most information I've found is related to XBMC with very
little about MythTV.  It appears that the mceusb driver is now in the
kernel and the device is treated as a keyboard device.  I find some
references to lirc and others that say lirc is no longer involved.  My
receiver is detected by the kernel and I can run ir-keytable -t and see all
of the key presses (scan codes appear.  I've found the where the keymaps
are stored and where I can override them.  What I cannot figure out is how
to get this information to the frontend.  It looks like it is now a product
of X? Since is is an input device?

I've tried linking the lircd to the /dev/input/event3 the mceusb dongle is
assigned to, but I get nothing from irw.

Has anyone gone down this road yet or am I the first (yuck)?

Any help much appreciated even if it is just to links.  I cannot believe
that this has changed so drastically without some documentation about how
the data path is constructed from input device to application.

-- Ken E.
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