Mario: without LIRC, the remote acts as normal keypresses (like if it were the PC's keyboard), i.e. if you open a terminal and press the "1" key, you see a "1" char entered in the terminal, which is essentially useless.
I've run mythTV in the past and I now run Elisa and both work fine (and require) their LIRC plugin in order to work properly with this remote. As far as I have explored linux media center solutions (and I did explore this) I haven't run into any case in which you would have remote control support without LIRC. The use of linux-input-layer functionality is pretty much useless without a proper way to communicating to the Media Center app that is distinguishable from "keyboard entries to the focused application window", which is what LIRC provides in this case. linux-input-layer just helps LIRC get the remote events from whatever infrared chipset without having to deal with the chipset itself. As far as I know mythbuntu uses MythTV which uses LIRC so there should be no problems on that end, on the contrary, more users will get the remote working out of the box. -- [Hardy] Lirc devinput (linux-input-layer) broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
