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I'm having some strange problems with my VDR keymaps on Xine (running FC3 with a DVB Nova-T). I use the xine keymap editor to 'grab' keystrokes for the VDR buttons, but none of the coloured buttons (green, red, blue) are recognised?
I can't help with LIRC, but you *can* get this working with the remote plugin and my patches (attached).
The -kernel patch is applicable to 2.6.x kernel source and the LinuxTV DVB driver tarballs (1.1.0, 1.1.1 and possibly some older versions); the -linuxtv patch is for DVB CVS (and *should* still be applicable; I've not checked recently). For the record, these are based on the IR keymap interface in the av7110 code.
The third patch is for the DVB utilities - you'll get an extra binary, budget_ci_loadkeys, which you can use as follows (once you've loaded the patched budget_ci module):
# budget_ci_loadkeys hauppauge_grey.rc5 >/proc/budget_ci_ir
For those who are already using these patches: no need to update - the patches are unchanged.
Debian testing/unstable users: these patches are present in dvb-utils 1.1.0-3 and dvb-driver-source 1.1.1-4 and later versions.
(BTW, you need to switch on text wrapping or to stop using OE.)