Re: Sony BD Remote (help requested)

[Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:59 +0100, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> <snip>
>> I talked to Marcel about the Sony BD Remote on the CELINUX event in the
>> Netherlands. I took my Sony BD Remote with me to show some issues.
>> Marcel did some on the fly coding to get the device connected, but there
>> is missing an hid driver that maps the keys to an input event xorg can use.
>>
>> So the device is not working yet, until somebody creates a proper hid
>> driver for the device to map the keys.
> 
> Should just work with a (very) recent distro:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16519
> 
> This might be missing some keys in the X evdev keyboard map, although I
> believe Peter already fixed this.
> 
> And it should also just work using LIRC (which is how I got it to work
> in the first place). Use gnome-lirc-properties to set it up.
> 
> Cheers

So does it create an input event that I can use with evtest and
xbindkeys --key to add commands to the keys. I really really don't like
all those gnome apps.... to get hardware working, hardware should be
graphical destkop independent configured. A month ago the device was not
working yet.

Best regards,

Jelle