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Antares
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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject: [HOWTO] Ati Remote Control under Linux |
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This a short HOWTO to optimise your ATI REMOTE CONTROL under linux. ( disponible en francais )
Excuse my english and feel free to correct me. 
CONFIGURATION OF YOUR SYSTEM
First, enable the ati_remote module in your kernel :
| Code: | Symbol: USB_ATI_REMOTE
Prompt: ATI / X10 USB RF remote control
Defined at drivers/usb/input/Kconfig:223
Depends on: USB && INPUT
Location:
-> Device Drivers
-> USB support
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and add a new section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file :
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "My ati remote control"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
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and declare it in the "ServerLayout" section :
| Code: | InputDevice "My ati remote control" "CorePointer"
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Now you can launch you ATI remote control :
| Code: | # modprobe ati_remote
# echo "ati_remote" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
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MAPPING YOUR ATI
Your ati remote control is an extension of your keyboard. Thus, if you modify some keys of your ati, you'll modify some of your keyboard too. Be aware of this.
I use 3 tools to map my ati remote control : xbindkeys, xvkbd and xmodmap.
--> xbindkeys to map permanently some keys of the ati remote control
--> xvkbd to emulate key combinations
--> xmodmap to map temporarily the remote control
First you have to set up you xbindkeys configuration :
To get the keycode of a key, juste do this :
and press the key you want the code
For example, with the space key of my keyboard :
| Code: | # xbindkeys -k
Press combination of keys or/and click under the window.
You can use one of the two lines after "NoCommand"
in $HOME/.xbindkeysrc to bind a key.
"NoCommand"
m:0x10 + c:65
Mod2 + space
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So you have to edit your ~/.xbindkeysrc file just like that :
"Command to execute when the key is pressed"
KEYCODE (for example m:0x10 + c:65)
Here comes the use of xvkbd to have a key combination linked to a single key on your ati remote control.
Xvkbd is a software that will emulate your key combination.
You can use it like that :
# xvkbd -text "KEY COMBINATION"
You can put modifiers in your key combination, using those expressions :
- \r - Return
- \t - Tab
- \b - Backspace
- \e - Escape
- \d - Delete
- \S - Shift (modify the next character)
- \C - Control (modify the next character)
- \A - Alt (modify the next character)
- \M - Meta (modify the next character)
- \[keysym] - the keysym keysym
So, if you want the power key to be similar as the key combination ALT+F4, you have to do :
| Code: | # xbindkeys -k
Press combination of keys or/and click under the window.
You can use one of the two lines after "NoCommand"
in $HOME/.xbindkeysrc to bind a key.
"NoCommand"
m:0x10 + c:222
Mod2 + NoSymbol
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And you get the keycode of the power key, then in your ~/.xbindkeysrc file you put :
| Code: | "xvkbd -text "\A\[F4]" "
m:0x10 + c:222
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Then you can choose to remap your ati remote control for each application (xmms, mplayer, tvtime, ogle...) with xmodmap.
You'll need to edit a config file for each application using this syntax :
keycode KEYCODE = KEYSYM
where KEYCODE is the number of the key (222 for the power key, used just before) and KEYSYM is the key you want (a, b, c, d, 1, 2, 3...)
Here are my config file for some applications :
| Code: | # cat ~/.xmodmap_tvtime
!################################################
!############ ATI REMOTE CONTROL ################
!################## TVTIME ######################
!################################################
!Quit
keycode 10 = 1
keycode 11 = 2
keycode 12 = 3
keycode 13 = 4
keycode 14 = 5
keycode 15 = 6
keycode 16 = 7
keycode 17 = 8
keycode 18 = 9
keycode 19 = 0
!Chanel +
keycode 105 = Up
!Chanel -
keycode 99 = Down
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| Code: | # cat ~/.xmodmap_xmms
!################################################
!############ ATI REMOTE CONTROL ################
!################### XMMS #######################
!################################################
!Play
keycode 168 = x
!Pause
keycode 110 = c
!Stop
keycode 232 = v
!Next track
keycode 233 = b
!Previous track
keycode 152 = z
!Shuffle
keycode 26 = s
!Repeat
keycode 41 = r
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| Code: | # cat ~/.xmodmap_gmplayer
!################################################
!############ ATI REMOTE CONTROL ################
!################# GMPLAYER #####################
!################################################
!Play
keycode 168 = Return
!Pause
keycode 110 = p
!Stop
keycode 232 = s
!Next track
keycode 233 = greater
!Previous track
keycode 152 = less
!Quit
keycode 222 = q
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Thus, instead of launching an application named GN2 with the command "GN2", you launch it with :
| Code: | # xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_GN2 | GN2
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So, you just have to use this in your ~/.xbindkeysrc file.
However, as I said before, the remote controle is an extension of the keyboard. For example, with the tvtime xmodmap, the key 1 to 9 of your keyboard are modilied too. So we'll need to remap the keyboard when exiting an application. I choose to do it that way : when I press the power key, it also makes the ALT+F4 key combination and it remaps the remote control. (in ~/.xbindkeysrc)
| Code: | "xvkbd -text "\A\[F4]" && xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_restore "
m:0x10 + c:222
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Where ~/.xmodmap_restore is :
| Code: | # cat ~/.xmodmap_restore
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
keycode 9 = Escape Escape
keycode 10 = ampersand 1
keycode 11 = eacute 2 dead_tilde
keycode 12 = quotedbl 3 numbersign
keycode 13 = apostrophe 4 braceleft
keycode 14 = parenleft 5 bracketleft
keycode 15 = minus 6 bar
keycode 16 = egrave 7 dead_grave
keycode 17 = underscore 8 backslash
keycode 18 = ccedilla 9 asciicircum
keycode 19 = agrave 0 at
keycode 20 = parenright degree bracketright
keycode 21 = equal plus braceright
keycode 22 = BackSpace
keycode 23 = Tab Tab
keycode 24 = a
keycode 25 = z
keycode 26 = e E EuroSign
keycode 27 = r
keycode 28 = t
keycode 29 = y
keycode 30 = u
keycode 31 = i
keycode 32 = o
keycode 33 = p
keycode 34 = dead_circumflex dead_diaeresis
keycode 35 = dollar sterling currency
keycode 36 = Return
keycode 37 = Control_L
keycode 38 = q
keycode 39 = s
keycode 40 = d
keycode 41 = f
keycode 42 = g
keycode 43 = h
keycode 44 = j
keycode 45 = k
keycode 46 = l
keycode 47 = m M
keycode 48 = ugrave percent
keycode 49 = twosuperior
keycode 50 = Shift_L
keycode 51 = asterisk mu
keycode 52 = w
keycode 53 = x
keycode 54 = c
keycode 55 = v
keycode 56 = b
keycode 57 = n
keycode 58 = comma question dead_cedilla
keycode 59 = semicolon period
keycode 60 = colon slash Multi_key
keycode 61 = exclam section
keycode 62 = Shift_R
keycode 63 = KP_Multiply
keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 65 = space space
keycode 66 = Caps_Lock
keycode 67 = F1 F11
keycode 68 = F2 F12
keycode 69 = F3 F13
keycode 70 = F4 F14
keycode 71 = F5 F15
keycode 72 = F6 F16
keycode 73 = F7 F17
keycode 74 = F8 F18
keycode 75 = F9 F19
keycode 76 = F10 F20
keycode 77 = Num_Lock
keycode 78 = Scroll_Lock
keycode 79 = KP_7
keycode 80 = KP_8
keycode 81 = KP_9
keycode 82 = KP_Subtract
keycode 83 = KP_4
keycode 84 = KP_5
keycode 85 = KP_6
keycode 86 = KP_Add
keycode 87 = KP_1
keycode 88 = KP_2
keycode 89 = KP_3
keycode 90 = KP_0
keycode 92 = Sys_Req
keycode 94 = less greater bar
keycode 95 = F11 F11
keycode 96 = F12 F12
keycode 107 = Delete
keycode 108 = KP_Enter
keycode 109 = Control_R
keycode 112 = KP_Divide
keycode 113 = Mode_switch
keycode 114 = Break
keycode 110 = Find
keycode 98 = Up
keycode 99 = Prior
keycode 100 = Left
keycode 102 = Right
keycode 104 = Down
keycode 105 = Next
keycode 106 = Insert
! right windows-logo key
! in "windows" keyboards the postion of the key is annoying, is where AltGr
! usually resides, so go definie it as AltGr
keycode 116 = Mode_switch
! right windows-menu key
keycode 117 = Multi_key
add Mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L
add Mod2 = Num_Lock
add Mod4 = Super_L Super_R Super_L Hyper_L
add Mod5 = Mode_switch ISO_Level3_Shift
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TRICKS
Some tricks to finish with the configuration :
For the mute key : If like me you want to use the mute key for mute and unmute, you can use this command, given by grad_guy :
| Code: | "amixer set Master toggle"
m:0x10 + c:160
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For the volume keys :
| Code: | "amixer set Master 1-"
m:0x10 + c:174
"amixer set Master 1+"
m:0x10 + c:176
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I noticed that sometimes the remote control was detected as m:0x00 and not as m:0x10. I can't explain it at the moment, and the only solution I found was to duplicate my ~/.xbindkeys file. Here you have it :
| Code: | # cat ~/.xbindkeysrc
###########################
# xbindkeys configuration #
###########################
"amixer set Master 1-"
m:0x10 + c:174
"amixer set Master 1+"
m:0x10 + c:176
"amixer set Master toggle"
m:0x10 + c:160
"xvkbd -text "\A\[F4]" && xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_restore "
m:0x10 + c:222
"xvkbd -text "\C\A\[Left]" "
m:0x10 + c:146
"xvkbd -text "\C\A\[Right]" "
m:0x10 + c:140
"xvkbd -text "\A\[Escape]" "
m:0x10 + c:177
"xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_tvtime | tvtime"
m:0x10 + c:159
"ogle"
m:0x10 + c:151
"xterm"
m:0x10 + c:178
"xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_gmplayer | gmplayer"
m:0x10 + c:230
"xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_xmms | xmms"
m:0x10 + c:136
##############################################################################
"amixer set Master 1-"
m:0x0 + c:174
"amixer set Master 1+"
m:0x0 + c:176
"amixer set Master toggle"
m:0x0 + c:160
"xvkbd -text "\A\[F4]" && xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_restore "
m:0x0 + c:222
"xvkbd -text "\C\A\[Left]" "
m:0x0 + c:146
"xvkbd -text "\C\A\[Right]" "
m:0x0 + c:140
"xvkbd -text "\A\[Escape]" "
m:0x0 + c:177
"xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_tvtime | tvtime"
m:0x0 + c:159
"ogle"
m:0x0 + c:151
"xterm"
m:0x0 + c:178
"xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_gmplayer | gmplayer"
m:0x0 + c:230
"xmodmap ~/.xmodmap_xmms | xmms"
m:0x0 + c:136
##################################
# End of xbindkeys configuration #
##################################
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Now, the configuration of your remote control is finished. Enjoy !
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grad_guy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: |
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For mute/unmute you can use this. | Code: | | amixer set Master toggle |
Now you save one script. |
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Antares
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:02 am Post subject: |
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thanks, I didn't know that one.  I'll modify this immediatly. |
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mdew
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| how do you modify the acceleration and repeat rate of the ati-remote? |
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Antares
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| hum, I don't know ! I never asked me this question ! but I'll try to see if it's possible. Let me know if you find from your part |
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