[schmoli]

Yeah i'm having the same issue.. will try B1 and either just play with the box as a computer for awhile, or give up using my xbox dongle and get the MCE one that works great out of the box. Which I hate, as I really like the xbox remote!

[markcleveland]

It would be nice if there was a preconfigured "image" we could dump on to the usb drive that automatically had the xbox remote working.. i might go down the same road as you and buy an MCE remote that just works out of the box.. as much as i love the xbox remote, it's too much hassle right now.

[jiz_king]

For what it's worth the last time my xbox remote wouldn't work I used..

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc (or was it lircd?) and during the setup choose any old remote control, then when it finishes copy back your xbox specific lircd.conf.

c

[koshari]

For what it's worth the last time my xbox remote wouldn't work I used..

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc (or was it lircd?) and during the setup choose any old remote control, then when it finishes copy back your xbox specific lircd.conf.

c

i did this also to get my xbox dvd dongle nd remote to work,

i needed to reboot as well, it does work its just takes some dicking round,

so in breif i installed lirc ,
used the mce remote file,
tested irw worked, with

Code:

irw

(or coarse i didnt get any outputs from the remote, however i am just checking irw loads without eroors here before i move on)

i then stop irw with "ctrl c"


then stopped lirc with

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop

noted no errors
copied this file to

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

Code:

name  XboxDVDDongle
    bits           8

    begin codes

        SELECT         0x0b
       UP              0xa6
        DOWN           0xa7
       RIGHT           0xa8
        LEFT           0xa9
       INFO            0xc3

        9              0xc6
       8               0xc7
        7              0xc8
       6               0xc9
        5              0xca
       4               0xcb
        3              0xcc
       2               0xcd
        1              0xce
       0               0xcf

        DISPLAY                0xd5
       BACK            0xd8
        SKIP-          0xdd
       SKIP+           0xdf
        STOP           0xe0
       REVERSE         0xe2
        FORWARD                0xe3
       TITLE           0xe5
        PAUSE          0xe6
       PLAY            0xea
        MENU           0xf7

      end codes

end remote

saved the file.

restarted lirc and checked for errors with ,

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start

i then rebooted , ran

Code:

irw

and got keypress ouputs like this

Code:

revo@revo-desktop:~$ irw
000000000000000b 00 SELECT XboxDVDDongle
000000000000000b 01 SELECT XboxDVDDongle
000000000000000b 02 SELECT XboxDVDDongle
00000000000000a6 00 UP XboxDVDDongle
00000000000000a6 01 UP XboxDVDDongle
00000000000000a8 00 RIGHT XboxDVDDongle
00000000000000a8 01 RIGHT XboxDVDDongle
00000000000000a9 00 LEFT XboxDVDDongle

[chunk_1970]

A big thankyou to the original poster and all those who made comments as this info got my old xbox remote dongle woring in no time...