[Bug 567512] [NEW] uinput broken for at least Mac mini

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Binary package hint: lirc

See the mistitled bug #440466 for the background and supposed fix to
this bug.

Previously, lircd would inject key events into /dev/input/uinput
(according to the lircd manpage, though there is no such file on my
system)  when run with the --uinput option and the uinput input module.
This worked with the Mac mini remote, except that auto-repeat did not
work, and one had to wait about a second between key presses.

According to bug #440466 there was a fix for this bug recently. Only now
it is completely broken: pressing keys on the Mac mini remote seems to
do nothing. However, when lircd is stopped, all the key presses entered
are indeed injected into the keyboard buffer. So in fact they are being
queued up somewhere.

This is not great: in Hardy the Mac mini remote worked perfectly out of
the box. In Jaunty and Karmic it worked poorly, with considerable manual
configuration. In Lucid it doesn't work at all.

I will now go and ping the other bug reports which I made before Karmic
was released (mostly simple configuration problems that can be worked
around). Sigh.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 20 21:31:35 2010
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: lirc

** Affects: lirc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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uinput broken for at least Mac mini
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567512
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