Alright all someone emailed me off the list and provided me with a way of using lircd, and the easier to load ati_remote.ko module, If I woulda used this, I coulda saved some wife tolerance points on the mythtv system
<<Email from Gary Berry>> Hi again, I have found something that you could probably use for the ati First you do not need to use the lirc_atiusb module at all for this to work. Make sure that the ati_remote kernel module loads on boot. If so you should be able to move the mouse pointer around on the screen with the thumb pad. If this is working then you are half way there. Next look in the input device file to see what event is being given to the USB receiver. more /proc/bus/input/devices You are looking for the EVENT number. Yours may be different depending on how many usb devices you have connected to the machine. Mine was set to event3 Next I installed lirc from source and compiled it to use dev/input as the controller method Next you need to edit /etc/rc.local. Here a printout of mine #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. /usr/local/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event3 touch /var/lock/subsys/local Notice that this will load the lircd daemon and force it to use dev/input and that it is accessing /dev/input/event3 which corresponds to how the usb receiver was loaded at bootup. Next I found this config file on the web and it seemed to work like a charm.. I am adding it as an attachment so hopefully you will receive it properly. If not I will send it in a new message. Also attached are two other files. One is labeled lircrc.mythtv. This file should be put in the .mythtv folder in your user directory and renamed to lircrc The other file is for xine. I couldn't get xine to work properly with the lircrc file in the .mythtv folder so I generated my a new file and it is placed in the root of my user directory and named .lircrc I use xine because is it way more functional than mplayer for viewing dvd's If you want to check out my setup I have posted my mythtv setup on my website. I am using a Leadtek WinTV2000 XP Expert card and it came with a remote. At first I played around with the ATI remote and it worked like a charm. However the card came with it's own remote and I was determined to make it work as well and I have and I am presently using it through a homebrew serial port receiver. http://members.shaw.ca/grberry I hope that you can make use of this info and it gets you up and running Gary <<end email>> These directions worked, and attached is the only file that was attached with the original email, lircd.conf my event was event2 and irw shows every keypress which should make it fairly easy to make a lircrc files for all programs. so far the only downside, which is often I have found in my searches is that the mouse control buttons dont seem to have a keyboard binding, and cease functioning, (only the circle button, the left and right click buttons register as a button press) Thanks everyone for your help
lircd.conf
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