[LIVE]IR Remote not working even after disabled from hal
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I have XBMC live (10.1) installed to a CF card in a CF-IDE adapter on my new HTPC.
The card is a Technotrend S1500

I have been trying for 3 days to get this remote working.

I installed evtest and it shows the buttons and works perfectly at detecting them from /dev/input/event4

However after setting up LIRC using 'irrecord' the remote still wasnt working properly. irw gave no output except what the remote spammed to the console.

I get up/down/left/right, the numbers and the volume buttons and that is about it, play and pause sometimes work and only 3/5 button presses are detected. I got this out of the box and nothing has changed since setting up LIRC. Enter/OK and back/Exit/Power buttons arent working.

The numbers/directions output to the console if you press them while in console.

I have added the remote in every way possible to the lirc.fdi file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/
It shows up under
lshal | less
as info.ignore = true

So I don't know why the remote is still treated like a keyboard when lshal says it's ignoring it and why nothing shows up on IRW.

Thanks in advanced for any info that could help!
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Solved this problem by using info from here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Str..._PC_Remote

to add:
Quote:Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Ignore Budget-CI"
MatchProduct "Budget-CI dvb ir receiver"
MatchIsKeyboard "true"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
to the end of /etx/X11/xorg.conf

Since these changes XBMC live seems painfully slow to start up, stuck on the screen with 5 dots for ages, but at least irw is now working and the remote isn't being seen as a keyboard
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