[mythtv-users] Hauppage remote - I've had numbers and keys working, but nothing else.
Damian
damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Fri Nov 30 11:33:17 UTC 2007
David Watkins wrote:
>> foiled at the first hurdle!
>>
>> irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event6 mylircd.conf
>> gave me permission problems, so I ran
>> sudo irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event6 mylircd.conf
>> this gave me the introductory text and then:
>> "Hold down an arbitrary button"
>> I pressed one of the buttons on the remote and held it down. After a few
>> seconds, I got:
>> irrecord: gap not found, can't continue
>> irrecord: closing '/dev/input/event6'
>
> I do remember see that error. I wonder if i's anything to do with the
> evdev stuff I put in my xorg.conf?
>
>
>
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>> Identifier "remote"
>>> Driver "evdev"
>>> Option "Name" "Hauppauge Nova-T"
>>> Option "XkbModel" "evdev"
>>> Option "Protocol" "evdev"
>>> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
>>> EndSection
>
>
> I remember on my first build (Fedora Core 3) I had to modprobe the
> evdev driver, but when I rebuilt using (Fedora Core 6) the evdev
> driver module had disappeared and I found the magic incantantion
> above. I can't remember if I ever checked whether the irrecord
> statement worked without it though.
>
> I guess it woouldn't hurt to add that block to your xorg.conf, restart
> X, and see what happens.
>
> Otherwise I'm out of ideas.
Thanks for your help. That weird bit of voodoo seems to have done the
trick without even using it!! Very weird! I feel like I've not done
anything that I've not tried before. All still was broken, then I put
your bit of black magic into xorg and was about to restart X when I
noticed that the remote was suddenly working properly!
I quickly went into xorg and commented out the evdev voodoo (as I knew
it couldn't have been used yet and I didn't want to break whatever did
work).
I've rebooted since and everything seems fine!
Months and months without a remote, and now it's all sorted! My best
guess is that with a bit more linux experience under my belt, I actually
put the right files in the right place this time.
Now I can get to tweaking my keys.
Thanks for your help
Damian
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