<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Whyte</b> <<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Phill Edwards <<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com">philledwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ultimately, am I ever going to get this working, or should I just give<br>> up and buy a remote which has a USB receiver? If I did is that going<br>> to be more reliable? If I should move to USB, can anyone suggest one<br>
> that's available in Australia?<br>... I bought a Microsoft MCE remote<br>(version 2 I think), which comes with a USB dongle and blasters to<br>control other equipment, and I have it all setup really easy. I<br>
initially set it up on Ubuntu Feisty and more recently I have put it<br>to use on my mythbuntu FE.<br><br></blockquote></div>
<div><br>Phill,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Just to second the recommendation for the M$ MCE remote. I have three of them - all working on Fedora frontends - an eclectic assortment including an Apple Mac mini, and two old laptops. The drivers are now built into the kernel, so it's now a matter of yum install lirc (and lirc-devel if you're compiling) and it 'just works'. Mine have been rock solid, and the M$ remote is pretty well designed with a good key layout for Myth.</div>