On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:26:57 +1000 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:25:29PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 07:51:50PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > I've got a DVB card (saa7146 chip) with a remote control which appears > > > > as a Linux input device. The trouble is certain keys which correspond to > > > > keys on an ordinary keyboard also appear on /dev/console when pressed, > > > > which I don't want. > > > > > > try upgrading to xserver 1.5.2. > > > > This is happening even on the console though, not just in X. > > well, if it pretends to be a keyboard then it's only natural that the keys end > up on the console. The only way to get around that is to grab the event device > (google for EVIOCGRAB). I thought I could prevent it by configuriong HAL to remove the properties that say it's a keyboard though, but I failed. > > The trouble is X would probably crash or whatever it's doing before I > > got to see the result of evtest, although I suppose I could run it > > in a console or over ssh with DISPLAY set. > > evtest is a console program. Oh, it logs console events, not X events? -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
