Rob Shortt wrote: >Lirc drives me nuts and I'd rather not use it at all. :) > >On my main Freevo box running 2.0 I use DirectFB for input, but used to use >the event device plugin before that. On one box here I am forced to use >lirc since that is the only thing that supports my serial IR receiver. > >Ever since Gerd Knorr et al added remotes to the event device layer I just >do not see the point of lirc. From then on I think the lirc drivers should >have been ported to the kernel. At that time lirc was in an aweful state. >Instead of things going into the kernel, development on lirc continued and >I guess got a little better (correct me if I'm wrong).
>Anyhow, it's nice to have the choice of using the event device. Maybe once >2.0 is a bit better you can improve the evdev input plugin there. I agree with Rob. The event name definitions changed several times betwen 2.6.16 and 2.6.18, and I had to fix the lircrc configuration several times. I'd prefer to use the input event interface, but the default input event driver in the kernel currently only supports single character keys (i.e., 0-9). The other non-alphanumeric keys don't return meaningful values. So Pierre's patch should eventually become the default (after solving the input.h dependency issue). Besides, understanding the relationship between the input event layer key names, LIRC key names, and Freevo button mappings is a task in itself. The problem I'm having right now is that the event driver enumeration seems to have changed for 2.6.18 (in 2.6.18, the PC speaker has become a new input source??! What's this?). I usually get my IR remote as input3, sometimes as input2. This breaks lirc and probably will affect Freevo as well unless it is more intelligent in determining which is the actual IR Remote input number). -- Wan Tat Chee (Senior Lecturer) School of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Science Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-F Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcwan-usm-20060710.asc F'print : 4DD0 0363 DB9E E08C 9F18 4BBC EC18 4BE2 7699 8CF2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
