On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 Richard Wall wrote: > Another remote control question, this time regarding the Debian / Ubuntu > setup of the Hauppauge Nova-T remote control device. > > Both Ubuntu and Debian SID have a script /etc/udev/scripts/inputdev.sh > that seems to be used to identify those input devices that are > associated with DVB. > > It checks for the strings "dvb|saa7134" in /proc/bus/input/devices and > if a match, udev chowns the input device to root.video > > Problem is that the Nova-t is identified in /proc/bus/input/devices as > "N: Name="cx88 IR (Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T"" so doesn't match. > > Anyway I've changed the line in permissions.rules to inputdev.sh %k > "DVB" and it now works... > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272434 > ...but is that the correct place to put it? > > Shouldn't all dvb driver names be standardised / prefixed so that they > can be easily identified by such scripts? Or should I just contact the > Debian / Udev maintainers about this? The real fix is proper sysfs support for the input subsystem. Dmitry Torokhov works on this and has posted preliminary patches to lkml. It will take a few more months until this is available in a release kernel, though. As a temporary measure I think it's best to patch the Ubuntu script with the other card names. Johannes
