Comment 19 for bug 318261

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:01:55PM -0000, Dan Andreșan wrote:
> I am still following this bug, hoping that my keyboard problem will be solved.
> I know that you said in comment 3 that my problem might be different, but it has the same symptoms:
> - multimedia keys used to crash X
> - immediately after that bug was fixed, they don't crash X anymore but are simply ignored
> - lshal -m sees them all perfectly (with the right names)
> - one key is working: for you is Screen Lock, for me is Power (I don't have Screen Lock) as ACPI will directly interpret it
>
> after all, your remote is seen by X as a keyboard. The receiver is on
> USB and it receives the IR from remote and convert it in keyboard events
> sent by USB. X has no way to know that your Remote is anything else than
> a keyboard...

I assume, however, that the "normal" keys on your keyboard, like 0-9 and
A-Z, work fine, or you wouldn't even be paying attention to the multimedia
keys. :-)

The alphanumeric keys on the remote don't work at all. Therefore your
symptoms are at least somewhat different, and you should file a separate bug
report. If it turns out to be the same, it is easy to mark the bug report
as a duplicate, but it is hard to disentangle multiple issues from within a
single bug report.

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 - mdz