On Tuesday 19 Apr 2005 23:13, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > Laz a ?crit : > > I have bought a USB numeric keypad (meant for laptops) that I found cheap > > in a sale and I have rewired the buttons on the front panel of the video > > into a matrix and connected them in place of the numeric keypad (it is > > basically just a small usb module with a keypad membrane plugged into > > it). All seems to work: I get a new usb input device when I attach it and > > if I cat the relevant input device, I can see the keypresses. So far so > > good. > > Great. I didn't think about those USB keyboards. I used a PS/2 keyboard > controler connected to the internal PS/2 connector (leaving the real > PS/2 port unusable). I was originally thinking of pulling apart a joystick or a mouse but found this going cheap! > > I can see at least two options: > > > > 1. Delete my remote.conf and program the 'keyboard' remote using the > > front panel (I won't be able to use the proper keyboard to control vdr > > but I'm sure I can cope with that!). > > I would go for that one. Maybe you also have the possibility to modify > the mapping from scan codes (returned by the USB device) to key codes, > thus decoupling the PS/2 keyboard keycodes and the USB keypad codes... > This is possible with the PS/2 keyboard driver. Hmmm...at the moment, some of the keys are mapped to things like Num Lock, i.e. they get turned into events that aren't normal keypresses. I suppose I could just ignore or disconnect Num Lock! I'll check out the source for the various drivers: I'm not using a usb keyboard so not getting real keycodes doesn't really matter, as long as I can direct the signals from the buttons to vdr somehow! ;-) Cheers, Laz
