I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

[Tony Houghton]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:55:09 -0800
Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800
> > Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My solution to this problem is customized udev scripts. Essentially, if
> >> the device is a remote, then udev does not set x11_driver. Since
> >> x11_driver is not set, Xorg ignores the device completely.
> >
> > Oh good, that is still possible. Could you tell me how? I couldn't work
> > out what to do, or even if there was anything I could do, from the udev
> > docs.
> 
> It's gone in master (and probably soon from debian/ubuntu). The server
> just grabs everything marked with ID_INPUT by udev.

And I suppose if I removed ID_INPUT I wouldn't get the events I want
from /dev/input/event* either.

-- 
TH * http://www.realh.co.uk