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IR Keycodes and X

I demand that Malcolm V may or may not have written...

> I'm creating a patch for the Winfast DTV2000H, the remote it comes with has
> 49 keys with 48 keycodes (it has two stop buttons). I notice that current
> remotes use a lot of keycodes which return a value above 255 (eg KEY_RADIO,
> which is 0x181 (385)). Whilst this works fine for console apps, my version
> of X doesn't allow keyvalues over 255, so I can't use a simple xmodmap
> overlay to access these keypresses.

[snip]
> There is so much redirection already involved in the process of going from
> gpio to keypress to X kbd mapping to X scancode, etc that I don't really
> want to involve lirc in the mix, but perhaps that is a mistake, thoughts?

Three options, AFAICS.

 * Use LIRC anyway. irexec, irxevent etc. immediately become available.

 * Remap the scan codes (from userspace). You'll need input-utils.

 * Alter permissions on the relevant input device node(s) so that users can
   gain direct access to them. (udev does this for DVB IR input devices, at
   least in Debian testing/unstable.)

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