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
>
>
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