[mythtv-users] ir-kbd-i2c Driver

[Michael T. Dean]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:

> Has anyone tried using the ivtv driver and the ir-kbd-i2c driver to 
> make remote keypresses show as regular keyboard keypresses?
> ...
> It all but eliminates the need for lirc, which in my opinion is a good 
> thing.  No worrying about having lirc support compiled into other 
> packages.  e.g; Mplayer, xine, zsnes, and what ever other add-ons you 
> might use.

Yeah, instead, you can worry about remapping the keys for MPlayer, xine, 
zsnes, MythTV, and ...  (Just the reason why I use LIRC with my ATI 
Remote Wonder--for which there is also a kernel keyboard driver.)

Mike