Found out last night it is evdev that is intercepting my IR commands because it sees my usb remote as an input device. How can I disable it, or excempt my remote from evdev and still get lirc to see it? On 02/29/2012 09:54 AM, Raymond Norton wrote: > Last week I was troubleshooting what I believed to be a lirc problem > with a MCE USB remote (vrc-1100). I could get the remote to work with > lirc on one workstation, a Mint 10 install, but not on other devices. > On my mini Zotac box and Mint 9 laptop, the play and pause button > would not work for MythTV. On the Zotac box and now my Dell XPS laptop > (Both Mint 12), a stop sign like alert would pop up on my screen each > time I pressed the pause or play button. > > I discovered this morning (after purging lirc) it is not a lirc > problem at all, but some other program running that is processing IR > commands. I'm somewhat of a novice with IR and thought lirc was needed > for IR, but that is not the case. The same buttons work with or > without lirc installed, as well as the pop ups when pressing play or > pause. > > Apparently this is why I cannot get my remote to work properly. > > Anybody a pro with IR able to tell me how to get past this problem? > > > Raymond > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >