From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anssi Hannula Subject: Re: USB remote control Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:12:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4602C705.2050105@gmail.com> References: <4602C577.8090207@dahlsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4602C577.8090207@dahlsys.com> Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: Roger Dahl Cc: linux-input List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org 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