Having just tested Maverick, I will note that this bug is fixed there (the version of lirc has been bumped to include the fix from the Gentoo bug report mentioned or something similar).
Is there any reason why this could not be patched and included as an update in Lucid? I'm willing to do the work, if someone points the way for me. -- uinput broken for at least Mac mini https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567512 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to lirc in ubuntu. Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: lirc See the mistitled bug #440466 for the background and supposed fix to this bug. Previously, lircd would inject key events into /dev/input/uinput (according to the lircd manpage, though there is no such file on my system) when run with the --uinput option and the uinput input module. This worked with the Mac mini remote, except that auto-repeat did not work, and one had to wait about a second between key presses. According to bug #440466 there was a fix for this bug recently. Only now it is completely broken: pressing keys on the Mac mini remote seems to do nothing. However, when lircd is stopped, all the key presses entered are indeed injected into the keyboard buffer. So in fact they are being queued up somewhere. This is not great: in Hardy the Mac mini remote worked perfectly out of the box. In Jaunty and Karmic it worked poorly, with considerable manual configuration. In Lucid it doesn't work at all. I will now go and ping the other bug reports which I made before Karmic was released (mostly simple configuration problems that can be worked around). Sigh. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Apr 20 21:31:35 2010 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SourcePackage: lirc _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
