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On Saturday 05 July 2003 23:41, undisclosed wrote:
> I can't seem to get irxevents to send
> signals to xmame running from mythgame
> in order to send the coin (5) and player
> (1 or 2) buttons.
>
> I have a Creative remote and can send configs, etc
> if requested. It works fine for mythtv, but none
> of the key presses send to go to xmame.
>
> Does anyone have a working setup or a workaround
> to insert coins and select the number of players and
> exit xmame?

Which variant of xmame are you running? (i.e., xmame.SDL, xmame.x11, etc)? I
run xmame.SDL, which will not work with irxevent, since it doesn't use X to
get events. I'm not sure if the xmame.x11 would even work, but it's worth a
try.

-JAC

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> Which variant of xmame are you running? (i.e., xmame.SDL, xmame.x11, etc)? I
> run xmame.SDL, which will not work with irxevent, since it doesn't use X to
> get events. I'm not sure if the xmame.x11 would even work, but it's worth a
> try.
>
> -JAC

I thought I'd check out the new GUI in MythGame tonight and realized
that my remote didn't work with Xmame either (haven't played with
MythGame in a long time...). I'm using xmame.x11.

Anyone know of any other options for getting remote key presses to
applications like Xmame?

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of m0j0.j0j0
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:23 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] irxevents with mythgame/xmame
>
>
> > Which variant of xmame are you running? (i.e., xmame.SDL,
> xmame.x11, etc)? I
> > run xmame.SDL, which will not work with irxevent, since it
> doesn't use X to
> > get events. I'm not sure if the xmame.x11 would even work, but
> it's worth a
> > try.
> >
> > -JAC
>
> I thought I'd check out the new GUI in MythGame tonight and realized
> that my remote didn't work with Xmame either (haven't played with
> MythGame in a long time...). I'm using xmame.x11.
>
> Anyone know of any other options for getting remote key presses to
> applications like Xmame?
>
> Joe

Hmmm, I don't know anything about the xmame internals, but I suppose it's
entirely possible that the input method is completely divorced from the
output method. That is, .x11 or .SDL may represent the screen output
method, but the input may simply grab the keyboard. If that's the case,
irxevent will not work in any case. The only hope, then, would be if xmame
could be built with LIRC support, but I doubt it would have it as most
people wouldn't have a need.

On a side note, has anybody gotten a plain old analog joystick to work with
the ALSA drivers? I can get the buttons working but get no response from
axis movement with 2 different joysticks and 2 different soundcard game
ports.

-JAC

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