Bastian Farkas wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:52 +0100, Bastian Farkas wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 20:21 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: >>> Bastian Farkas wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:39 +0100, Bastian Farkas wrote: >>>>> hi, >>>>> i have some strange lirc problem after upgrading my ubuntu install to >>>>> the latest version, while keeping freevo at 1.8.0. at the terminal >>>>> everything lirc related works. lircd is running, irw works and ircat >>>>> shows the correct events when i test my freevo-lircrc with it. but as >>>>> soon as i start freevo it won't recognize any keypresses from my remote. >>>>> and while freevo is running ircat doesn't work either. lirc is using the >>>>> linux-input interface with /dev/input/event6. the weird thing is, the >>>>> number keys are still recognized as if i would press them on a normal >>>>> keyboard. has anyone else ever had a similar problem? i have enabled >>>>> debug messages but there seems to be nothing wrong, PyLirc loads just >>>>> fine aswell. >>>>> >>>>> thanks in advance >>>>> Bastian Farkas >>>> even after updating freevo to latest svn (Freevo 1.8.3-svn r11193) the >>>> problem persists. i thought it could be related to pylirc, but when i >>>> tried the sample code from the developer's website it worked and >>>> recognized my keypresses with the freevo lircrc correctly. so i suppose >>>> the error is in rc.py or i have forgotten something very basic. could >>>> someone explain what exactly happens when loading rc.py? i get the >>>> following output wenn starting freevo and pressing a key on my remote (8 >>>> is mapped as DOWN in lircrc, non numerical keys aren't even recognized). >>>> i'm a bit confused by the HELPER stuff and the two self.inputs lines. >>> By default Freevo takes it's lircrc from /etc/freevo. (can be moved to >>> another location). >>> >>> When you test with ircat you need to add --config=/etc/freevo/lircrc. >>> >>> Like this: >>> ircat --config=/etc/freevo/lircrc freevo >> that command works just fine, when freevo is not running. >> and if i start it on another tty if freevo is running, it gets the >> correct events and passes them to freevo, but only as long as i'm on >> that tty. if i switch back to freevo, i can the results of my >> keypresses. i am running freevo inside Xorg without a windowmanager. >> >> freevo also detects the keypressing correctly if i switch to tty1 (where >> it gets started via autologin and .xinitrc). perhaps it's a problem with >> Xorg blocking out the event6 device or lirc entirely? >> >> Bastian Farkas >> > aaaaand i fixed it myself! it was indeed a xorg problem. the bug and > solution are described here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/164627
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