On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:48:43 +0000 Simon Jones <sijones2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks. It seems that there was a bug in their driver which > > prevented some keys from working, but AFIACT it's fixed now. The > > code is GPL so is it just lack of interest/demand that's stopped it > > from going into the main kernel? > > They have an NDA with a chip supplier so can't release the full > source, I think there is a binary blob somewhere that makes it so you > can't include them. The 6920 uses a Conexant chipset and everything except the remote works with a standard kernel, but I did have to install the firmware manually. Is the binary part for the remote? I would have thought it was only for other chipsets. > > I think I'll pass on having to maintain a 3rd party driver whenever > > the Debian kernel upgrades. The remote is missing some quite > > important keys like Play, so they seem to have only considered it > > for live viewing, not for PVRs. I'll probably end up buying a > > separate USB remote or continuing to use a portable keyboard. > > I have an MCE remote, ebay has HP remote and receiver cheap enough, > they are also rc6 encoding so you can use one-for-all remote etc easy > enough, and drivers are in kernel so only a manor change to lirc to > get it working. Ah yes, those HP ones look serviceable and affordable, thanks. > You don't have to use lirc but I couldn't be bothered trying to map > the keys in X. It would be better if more applications had a nice frontend to "train" them to use certain keys, either as the remote appearing as a keyboard, or by reading input events (which is very easy). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
