Lircm and X

[Grenage]

Greetings!

I'm posting for some input after exhausting just about every angle I can come up with. I'm using Lirc to use my remote in mplayer etc, and this is working perfectly. The problem I am having here is using the lircm extension to control the mouse cursor with the remote control.

The device output is /dev/lircm (standard) and running cat /dev/lircm does generate output using the correct remote keys. I have to assume that this means Lirc(m) is running just fine, and that the problem is my xorg.conf (God only knows how). The relevant parts of my current config are:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "LIRC-Mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "LIRC-Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/lircm"
    Option         "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents"
    Option         "Buttons" "5"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

I believe my lircmd.conf is fine, but I'll post it anyway:

#UNCONFIGURED
#
# To find out how to get a proper configuration file please read:
# 
#	/usr/share/doc/lirc/README.Debian
# 
# lircmd config file
# 
PROTOCOL IntelliMouse
# ACCELERATOR start max multiplier

ACCELERATOR 2 30 5
TOGGLE_ACTIVATE * Green

MOVE_N  * Two
MOVE_NE * Three
MOVE_E  * Six
MOVE_SE * Nine
MOVE_S  * Eight
MOVE_SW * Seven
MOVE_W  * Four
MOVE_NW * One

BUTTON1_TOGGLE * Five
BUTTON2_TOGGLE * Down

BUTTON1_CLICK * Five
BUTTON2_CLICK * Star
BUTTON3_CLICK * Hash

If anyone's got any ideas about where I'm going wrong, I'd be really grateful

Grenage.

[Grenage]

Shameless one-off bump.

[Blackie_Chan]

I have the same problem. Have you gotten lircmd to work?

[Grenage]

Alas no, I never managed to get it working.

[Blackie_Chan]

I fixed the problem for me. All I had to do was add the following to my ServerLayout section:

Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"

Prior to adding the above line, I noticed that my Lirc-mouse was disabled because AllowEmptyInput is on (according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log). When I turned AllowEmptyInput off, my lirc mouse was working but pressing a key on my keyboard caused the key to be repeated 3 times on the screen.

Cheers.

[omarino]

Blackie_Chans solution works, but it dissables HAL which is used for auto mouse and keyboard config since 8.10.
The more elegant solution is leaving AutoAddDevices enabled and configuring lirc mouse in hal and not in xorg.conf:
see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498580