I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 06:26:58PM -0800, Paul Bender wrote:
> On 1/12/2010 2:55 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tony Houghton<h at realh.co.uk>  wrote:
> >> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800
> >> Paul Bender<pebender at san.rr.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> My solution to this problem is customized udev scripts. Essentially, if
> >>> the device is a remote, then udev does not set x11_driver. Since
> >>> x11_driver is not set, Xorg ignores the device completely.
> >>
> >> Oh good, that is still possible. Could you tell me how? I couldn't work
> >> out what to do, or even if there was anything I could do, from the udev
> >> docs.
> >
> > It's gone in master (and probably soon from debian/ubuntu). The server
> > just grabs everything marked with ID_INPUT by udev.
> 
> As Xorg is not the only input device handler, this would seem to be a 
> bug / design flaw that should be fixed before 1.8 is released. If not, 
> distributions will need to hack around it in their udev scripts by 
> clearing ID_INPUT whenever they do not want Xorg to grab the device.

To add more detail to Dan's comment, the server ignores devices without
ID_INPUT set. Any device that has ID_INPUT set will be matched against the
input attributes in the xorg.conf.d and - if successful - added to the
server. If a device does not have a matching xorg.conf.d section or the
x11_driver already set by udev, it will not be added.

Cheers,
  Peter