[Merge] lp:~jooooooon/ubuntu/lucid/lirc/lucid-fix-567512 into lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/lirc

[Jonathan Clarke]

Jonathan Clarke has proposed merging lp:~jooooooon/ubuntu/lucid/lirc/lucid-fix-567512 into lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/lirc.

Requested reviews:
  Ubuntu Development Team (ubuntu-dev)
Related bugs:
  #567512 uinput broken for at least Mac mini
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567512


Fix bug where remote button presses are passed to uinput to be handled as standard key presses in X, but are ignored until lircd is stopped or restarted (LP: #567512).

This change simply applies upstream patch d987ce9c68239f637dddb9de9f9668f6e8f9fc1d to restore passing of events to uinput. This patch is present in the next version, currently in maverick.

This can be tested by setting up lirc, using an appropriate /etc/lirc/lircd.conf for your remote controller (examples in /usr/share/lirc/remotes), and setting in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf:
REMOTE_MODULES="uinput"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS="--uinput"

After restarting lirc, button presses on the remote should be passed via uinput and interpreted as key strokes (ie, a Play/Pause button or Volume Up/Down buttons will behave as if the equivalent key was pressed on a multimedia keyboard).

However, before this fix, button presses have no effect. After pressing buttons, with no effect, stop lirc, and all presses will suddenly take effect.

With this fix, button presses take effect immediately.
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