Unwanted events from DVB remote

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Apr 24 10:04:37 PDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:59:44PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:

> I've tried to prevent this with an FDI file (see below), but although
> hal-device shows that the properties have been removed, it doesn't
> change the actual behaviour. Why would that be? Do acpid and whatever's
> responsible for /dev/console use some other mechanism than HAL
> properties to decide what to respond to? Or is my file being loaded too
> late? I called it /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-ir-input.fdi (in the context of
> Debian unstable FWIW). Should I have used the preprobe directory
> instead?

Yes, the kernel and acpid ignore hal. What you could do is use hal to 
remap the buttons to have a different behaviour - see the laptop keymap 
fdi files for an example of this.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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