On Tue, 28 May 2002 23:05, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2002 14:27, Brad Hards wrote:
> > USB keys and buttons don't autorepeat at the device level. You have to
>
> Sure ?
There is no reason why they couldn't autorepeat. However I think it is 
atypical.

> There is a led in the ir receiver which lights if it receives something (
> at least I get this impression).
> When pressing and holding a button (i.e. key) on the remote control, then
> this led flashes once, then one moment pause, and then it starts to
> flicker. This "feels" like the behaviour of a usualy keyboard with delay
> and auto-repeat.
Could be.

> Is looking at the output of event0 and event1 the right way to find out
> more ? Or how can I find out more ?
evtest (from the linuxconsole CVS, on sourceforge) is probably a good place to 
start. Compare with normal keyboard behaviour.

> > handle it in the driver. There are ioctls for the input event device to
> > get and set this.
>
> I will have  a look. Any example sources anywhere ?
Maybe something in the linuxconsole CVS. I am doing progressive 
documentation/examples of the event interface, but haven't done those yet. 
I'd look at the kernel source to see what you need to do, and what you get 
back, but that might not suit you.

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