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because you need right lircd.conf and IR receiver to know apple remote frequency.
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Well, one problem was in Ubuntu Xorg was taking my IR commands and doing nothing with them... I had to edit the xorg.conf file to tell it to ignore the IR receiver.
Another problem was I had to install ir-keytable and change the protocol to NEC.
now it is working on my laptop... but when I connect this same USB IR receiver and remote to a desktop running the same OS, it doesn't work... just like on the laptop, it recognizes key presses with "irrecord" or with "ir-keytable -t" but it doesn't recognize anything with "irw" and until it does that it won't work in XBMC. I have no idea why it's not working... I copied all the config files I can think of from the laptop to this desktop... but can't get it to work there... must be missing something... i spent maybe hundreds of hours on it before I got it working on the laptop, so there must have been something I did that I've not done yet on the desktop. Wish someone would post some easy to follow instructions that actually work, on how to do this.
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did you managed it? does the Apple Remote works on the desktop?
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2012-04-27, 00:46
(This post was last modified: 2012-04-27, 00:50 by Kissell.)
I never did get "irw" working, but had the Apple remote working in XBMC in Ubuntu using ir-keytable.
But then I needed to re-format to use Fedora, and I can't get it to work again.
Actually, when I use "ir-keytable -t" there is no problem. It recognizes my button presses and has them mapped to the proper keys.
The problem is that XBMC doesn't do anything when I press buttons... so the OS sees my button press, but XBMC does not.