Bug#507831: X and input devices
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:10:25 +0000
Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:17:14 +0000
> Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > My DVB card's remote control presents itself as an input device.
> > Unfortunately X seems to think it's an extra keyboard, which causes
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> In case this is of use to anyone else, I eventually found a way to fix
> it. I ended up with this configuration in xorg.conf for my core
> keyboard:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "evdev"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
This doesn't quite work after all. If I press the 4 button on my remote
at any time, X quits/crashes with no reason given in its log!
I'm now stuck with the original problem that X responds to IR keypresses
as if they're a keyboard - even though I've removed
xserver-xorg-input-evdev!
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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
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