[mythtv-users] Looking for clarity on MythTV, to LIRC, or not to LIRC, ir-keytable, and key mappings

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Andrew Stadt <acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 4:05 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> For setting up the remote in general, you could follow this:
>>
>> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=114124
>>
>> Eric
>>
> I was under the impression that the ir-keytable method was generating
> keycodes that were outside the range that xorg could handle - that was why
> we were still using lirc - has this been fixed in xorg?

xorg still cannot handle multi-byte keycodes, but you can use
ir-keytable to load a mapping file to map all keys into the
single-byte space just as you do with lirc.  Instructions for this are
covered in the link above.

Eric