[mythtv-users] ATI Remote with FC2 - Round 2

[David George]

On 11/1/2004 5:46 PM, Mercury Morris wrote:

>But pressing the buttons on the remote have no effect that I can
>discover.  What am I missing?  Should I just follow this tutorial?
>
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/youssef_makki/remotewonder/
>
>It's really confusing to see different HOWTOs and tutorials, some
>of which say to modify xorg.conf, while others say to use lirc.
>  
>
Just to give you a third option I say neither. ;-)  In my case, the 
ati_remote.ko worked fine.  It even controls the mouse in X without any 
changes.

>If modifying xorg.conf means that the ATI Remote becomes the
>mouse device and the regular mouse no longer works, then I 
>would not choose that path.  But, if you can keep both the
>regular mouse and add the ATI Remote, then that looks pretty good.
>  
>
They both work.  I use both a mouse and the ATI remote mouse interchangably.

>If you have acquired enough expertise in dealing with the ATI Remote,
>would you be kind enough to tell us what you decided and how you
>made your choice?
>  
>
You didn't mention which kernel you are using. Here are a couple of 
patches to make ati_remote a little more Myth friendly.
Kernel 2.6.7:  http://thegeorges.us/mythtv/ati_remote.diff
Kernel 2.6.8.1:  http://thegeorges.us/mythtv/ati_2681.diff
I don't have a separate patch for 2.6.9 because it is in my big patch 
for 2.6.9.

The problems with the kernel module are that the key map is not 
modifyable without recompiling the ati_remote module and you need to 
change other programs to match it.  Because I run everything as the myth 
user I created a custom key map for mplayer to match Myth (only had to 
change a couple of things).

--
David