From: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
To: Roger Dahl <rogerdahl@dahlsys.com>
Cc: linux-input <linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: USB remote control
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:12:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4602C705.2050105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4602C577.8090207@dahlsys.com>
Roger Dahl wrote:
> Hello everyone,
Hi!
> I have a remote control that looks like a USB keyboard to the system.
> When I press buttons on the remote, key presses appear in X and the VTs.
> I would like to change my configuration so that events from the remote
> don't turn into key presses and become available only in
> /dev/input/eventN (where I will read them with a custom application).
>
> I'm running FC6. Any help or pointers on how to accomplish this would be
> much appreciated.
Your custom application can call EVIOCGRAB ioctl on the event device.
Then the events from the device are only sent to this one application :)
--
Anssi Hannula
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 18:05 USB remote control Roger Dahl
2007-03-22 18:12 ` Anssi Hannula [this message]
2007-03-22 18:48 ` Roger Dahl
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