[vdr] Re: Keyboard problem

[Simeon Walker <simeon@sbs.bangor.ac.uk>]

On 03/03/03 09:16, Martin Altemark wrote:

> that ought to work, shouldn't it. Unfortunately it doesn't... both with --terminal /dev/tty1 and -t /dev/tty1 it has the same behavior - displaying chars on the screen instead of beeing captured by vdr.
>
> I'm getting pretty desperate since this means I cannot start vdr at startup... Please help me? Where can I debug this? What could possibly be wrong?
>
> I am using redhat 8.0, vdr 1.1.20...
>
>  
It doesn't work for me either. I use Gentoo Linux and have tried vdr 
from 1.1.20 to 1.1.25. It's only since I've been using LIRC that I could 
run usefully vdr from a script/init.

Sim

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Oliver Friedrich [mailto:oliver@familie-friedrich.de]
> Sent:	Mon 3/3/2003 9:36 AM
> To:	vdr@linuxtv.org
> Cc:	
> Subject:	[vdr] Re: Keyboard problem
> Hi Martin,
> You must assign a terminal to vdr. Have you tried the option '-t <console>'
> (like: "-t /dev/tty1")?
> If you call vdr with this option, it grabs all keys from the selected
> terminal.
>
> Oliver
>
>
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org]On Behalf Of
> > Martin Altemark
> > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:42 AM
> > To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> > Subject: [vdr] Keyboard problem
> >
> >
> > I don't seem to be able to control vdr from a keyboard when
> > running thru the runvdr script, however I can do it when
> > executing vdr myself from the prompt. When executed thru ./runvdr
> > I press the keyboard and the characters is displayed on the
> > screen rather than beeing captured by vdr.
> >
> > What could this problem be?
> >
> > Help would be appreciated
> >
> > /Martin
> >
> >
> >
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