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Commit 31cae7ca authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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[media] doc-rst: add documentation about IR on V4L boards 



This section is outdated, but let's add it, after converting
to ReST, and then fix it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
parent cff4c8ac

Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/index.rst

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	:numbered:



	fourcc

	v4l-with-ir

	cardlist

	cafe_ccic

	cpia2

Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/v4l-with-ir.rst

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infrared remote control support in video4linux drivers

======================================================



Author: Gerd Hoffmann



.. note::



   This section is outdated.



basics

Basics

------



Current versions use the linux input layer to support infrared
@@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ Feel free to contact me in case of trouble. Note that the ir-kbd-* 
modules work on 2.6.x kernels only through ...





how it works

How it works

------------



The modules register the remote as keyboard within the linux input
@@ -42,7 +46,7 @@ events and the like. You can also use the kbd utility to change the 
keymaps (2.6.x kernels only through).





using with lircd

Using with lircd

================



The cvs version of the lircd daemon supports reading events from the
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ linux input layer (via event device). The input layer tools tarball 
comes with a lircd config file.





using without lircd

Using without lircd

===================



XFree86 likely can be configured to recognise the remote keys.  Once I
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  Gerd



--
 
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>