[mythtv-users] DVB Remote Control and MythTV

[Adrian Look]

On Monday 24 November 2003 10:26 am, Edward Wildgoose wrote:
> > Ok, so for my next stupid question, I'd like to ask...
> >
> > Why doesn't it work for me?
>
> Forget about myth for a moment.  Go to the console on the machine running
> the driver.  When you press the remote does it start typing characters onto
> the console (it should, because it's just feeding the input buffer).

Nothing.

> If not then something has gone wrong.  Check you don't have lirc or
> something else running which might be grabbing the input device.  Also
> confirm that you did compile your kernel with /dev/input support - I
> suspect you didn't, although this begs the question why you have any input
> devices at all now...

I am using a stock Mandrake 9.2 kernel 2.4.22-10mdk.

I modified the dvb-kernel insmod.sh script to load the evdev which made the 
/dev/input/ entry appear. Should I load any other modules?

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
agpgart                48292   0  (autoclean) (unused)
dvb-ttpci-budget-ci     6124   0  (unused)
ttpci-eeprom            2664   0  [dvb-ttpci-budget-ci]
saa7146_vv             37732   0  (unused)
saa7146                13444   0  [dvb-ttpci-budget-ci saa7146_vv]
grundig_29504-491       4836   0
grundig_29504-401       5356   0
tda1004x               10664   1
ves1820                 6304   0
stv0299                 9420   0  (unused)
alps_tdmb7              4936   0
alps_tdlb7              6936   0
ves1x93                 6128   0
dvb_ir                  2732   0  [dvb-ttpci-budget-ci]
dvb-core               51776   3  [dvb-ttpci-budget-ci grundig_29504-491 
grundig_29504-401 tda1004x ves1820 stv0299 alps_tdmb7 alps_tdlb7 ves1x93]
video-buf              17732   0  [saa7146_vv]
v4l2-common             4032   0  [saa7146_vv]
v4l1-compat            12072   0  [saa7146_vv]
evdev                   5600   0
input                   5696   0  [dvb_ir evdev]
videodev                7936   0  [saa7146_vv]

[snip]

> You can also use LIRC to capture the /dev/input stuff and feed it back out
> in standard lirc format for use with the native lirc support in myth

Ok, I will investigate this, but I would prefer to work out why it's not 
working as it is should.

-- 
Adrian Look