[mythtv-users] remote power button intercepted

[Jarod Wilson]

On Nov 27, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Greg Woods wrote:

> I just upgraded an old frontend from Fedora 10 to Fedora 14 (one release
> at a time). It looked good at first, but I've got two problems. One is
> that the watch recordings screen is blank even after setting up the
> config.xml file, but that problem I think I'll be able to solve
> eventually.
> 
> I also can't get the Streamzap remote to work quite right. The OK button
> doesn't work at all (but the return key on the keyboard does). If I run
> irw, the OK button press is seen and recognized correctly.  And, the
> power button brings up the GNOME shutdown dialog. Something is
> intercepting the power button at a very low level. I killed off Xorg and
> lircd, and still when I push the power button on the remote, something
> executes the shutdown command. How can I stop it from doing that? I have
> been Googling and playing around for a couple of hours now without
> success. This does not happen on my Fedora 13 backend. The only thing I
> found Googling was someone asking the same question about the power
> button intercept in the Ubuntu forum but not getting any response.

echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols

You've got both in-kernel and userspace decoding going at the same
time. I really need to push an update to the Fedora lirc initscripts
that disables in-kernel decode if you start up lirc...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com