Unwanted events from DVB remote

[Tony Houghton]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:04:37 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> 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.

Oh well at least I know what's responsible now. I'll try filing bug
reports or something for the kernel and acpid.

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