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just cant get remote or xbmcbuntu to work - Adol - 2012-11-15
Hello,
I love using xbmc on my windows media pc but I have been trying to switch over to linux and am having some trouble.
I can always get xbmc to run on linux but I always have some trouble.
1. If I use the xbmcbuntu cd, and install everything works well except that the video driver install is not good. I have an ati 4200 but am unfamiliar with ubuntu so am having trouble removing the installed driver and installing the proprietary driver. With the default installed driver I cannot play MKV files(most of my library is mkv). Also, Im having trouble with sound when playing mkv files.
2. If I do a gentoo, opensuse or fedora install everything plays perfectly but I cannot get lirc to act nicely. My remote control`s OK button doesn’t work and if I click a direction one time sometimes I get many clicks instead of one(makes it unusable). I think its a problem with the kernel lirc conflicting with xbmc but Ive been trying to fix it with no progress. My remote is a standard MCE remote and works perfectly in windows 7 xbmc and xbmcbuntu(so I know it works in linux).
I want to use option 2 because I am familiar with gentoo and opensuse(rpm based) but I really need to get my remote working. Without the remote its pretty much unusable as a media center.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Now Im trying with Opensuse 12.1(tried with 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, gentoo)
RE: just cant get remote or xbmcbuntu to work - dnixx - 2012-11-16
Regarding you remote: My only suggestion, and what I did for my friend who experienced the exact same problem, is to install LIRC instead of using the kernel drivers. I'm running Fedora+LIRC+XBMC+MCE-remote without problems, except that the remote isn't as responsive as I'd wished.
RE: just cant get remote or xbmcbuntu to work - Adol - 2012-11-19
Thank you for the advice.
Do you know what the lirc kernel driver is called.
I’ve been looking in my kernel config and cant seem to find it.