[linux-dvb] T200 Remote Oddities

[Ben Griffiths]

On Thursday 03 November 2005 20:40, Jon Burgess wrote:
> Ben Griffiths wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 November 2005 19:32, Jon Burgess wrote:
> >>Ben Griffiths wrote:
> >>Could you try checking the ioctls by using strace on the lircd. You
> >>should see the following amongst the output:
> >>...
> >>open("/dev/input/event1", O_RDONLY)     = 7
> >>ioctl(7, EVIOCGRAB, 0x1)                = 0
> >
> > I can't see this. Here's the output of the strace.
> >
> > marty:/etc/init.d # strace lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event2
> > execve("/usr/sbin/lircd", ["lircd", "-H", "dev/input", "-d",
> > "/dev/input/event2"], [/* 64 vars */]) = 0
>
> Note that lircd only opens the /dev/input device when a client attaches
> to the daemon (e.g. irw or mythfrontend). There is lots of output so I
> think you should write the output to a file with "-o" and then search
> the results.
>
> > I can however see this.
> >
> > #define EVIOCGRAB		_IOW('E', 0x90, int)			/* Grab/Release device */
>
> OK that is a good sign. As long as lirc was compiled with the header
> file containing this line then it should be using it.
>
> 	Jon
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Ok, I loaded up irw and found the following lines in the output,

014 time([1131054771])                = 1131054771
14014 write(5, "Nov  3 21:52:51 marty lircd 0.7."..., 68) = 68
14014 open("/dev/input/event2", O_RDONLY) = 7
14014 ioctl(7, 0x40044590, 0x1)         = 0

Any ideas.

Thanks,
Ben