<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; "><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_19_1359993145441_62"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Simon Hobson <linux@thehobsons.co.uk><br></font></div> <br>
EJS wrote:<br>> I am struggling to get my media keys (play, volume, etc.) working on my Adesso ARC-1100 remote. The Adesso doesn't use Lirc and looks like a standard keyboard.<br><br>Check the archives, there was a thread only this week - "Lirc vs IR-Keytable".<br>Going back a little further, there was extensive "discussion" in the thread "Programming remote button bindings (WAS: What major features are planned for 0.27?)"<br> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_19_1359993145441_63"><br></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Thanks Simon. I had read that thread before, but I went back and read it again just to see if I had missed anything. I might be misunderstanding the issue, but I dont think it applies to this problem. The Addesso remote is recognized as a USB keyboard not a remote so ir-keytable doesn't even see an rc node. I think the issue
is more like if you had multimedia keys on your keyboard. (In fact, I do have a multimedia keyboard and the play and vol-up/vol-down keys on the keyboard are behaving exactly like the ones on the remote.)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I had thought that I would be able to use xmodmap to remap the symbols that those keys generate. However those keys don't even generate key press events as far as xev is concerned. They generate keymapnotify events. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt;
"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; ">FocusOut event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; "> mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; ">FocusIn event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; "> mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; ">KeymapNotify event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x0,</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; "> keys: 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 </div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; "> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 </div></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Interestingly though if I drop to a console and use showkey command, they do generate standard keycodes. There must be something in mythbuntu/xfce that is picking up those keypresses before x gets to them? I have already searched/removed any stray .Xmodmap files and checked the keyboard
setting shortcuts gui. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Wondering if anyone else had any suggestions?? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Thanks again,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif; ">J</div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; "><br></div> </div></body></html>