[mythtv-users] How do you manually specify a driver for a USB device?

[Raphael Pooser]

Richard Bronosky wrote:
> The problem is that there are no Linux drivers for this.  

Ok I see where this is going.  Basically usbhid isn't enough - it needs 
a very specific driver like the ati_remote usb driver, whjch you want to 
make yourself.
My own abilities to help are pretty limited.  I did look over the source 
code for my own ati remote in an effort to switch the positions of the 
mouse direction pad and the keyboard arrow buttons on the remote (not 
while using LIRC, just the ati_remote usb driver).  I thought it was a 
matter of changing the signal variables and their corresponding data 
types and then the actual assignments, but it was a bit more complicated 
because mouse and keyboard are actually different enough to cause me to 
hit a roadblock at least.  I don't know enough about the way usb works 
in linux to code my own solution unfortunately.  But I would say, if you 
make your own driver it probably isn't going to be incredibly dissimilar 
in implemenation to the ati_remote driver.  But to view the raw data you 
need to get started with this, I have no idea.  Good luck.
Raphael