Bug 299030

Summary:	app-misc/lirc-0.8.6 uinput support broken by >=xf86-input-evdev-2.3.1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ryan May <rmay31>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage <media-tv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch for lircd to send an EV_SYN event after sending a EV_KEY event. Ebuild bumped to include patch.

Description Ryan May 2009-12-30 21:12:30 UTC

I noticed today that my laptop's remote, which had previously been set up fine with lircd and it's uinput support, was no longer working.  irw showed that the button events were being received. However, X was not registering these events, not even under xev.  However, when I stopped the lircd daemon, all the events showed up at once.  Moving to xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 didn't help.  Further investigation led me to Gentoo Bug #298459 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298459).  Creating a patch for lircd similar to the one in the bug (attached) makes the remote work perfectly again.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ryan May 2009-12-30 21:13:37 UTC

Created attachment 214663 [details, diff]
Patch for lircd to send an EV_SYN event after sending a EV_KEY event.

Comment 2 Ryan May 2010-01-28 21:15:09 UTC

This is now checked into lirc CVS:

http://lirc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lirc/lirc/daemons/lircd.c?r1=5.91&r2=5.92&sortby=date

Can we get this added and the package bumped so that uniput support will work with the stable xf86-input-evdev?

Comment 3 Ryan May 2010-01-28 21:17:44 UTC

Created attachment 217772 [details]
Ebuild bumped to include patch.

Here's an ebuild for -r3 that includes this patch.

Comment 4 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-21 02:32:56 UTC

Added in lirc-0.8.6-r3, thanks Ryan