Did you remember to start the script with the proper #! magic and chmod +x?

no idea what you're talking about... this is my first linux script, so I'm probably going about it all wrong...

My script currently reads:



What else do I need to add to make this work?

ahh yes hash bang bin bash

anyone else think the guys that wrote this were either drug dealers or huge fans of the old batman series?

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OK, so I googled "hash bang bin bash" and discovered a new line I needed to add to my script... My script now looks like this:



Still doesn't work... (I'm guessing because of something to do with chmod??) Anyone care to enlighten me on what this is and how I need to use it? google was no help to me in this case...

alright you need to do this 'chmod 755 scriptname' Also I don't think your paths are right. it should be /home/user/.xmodmaprcvid

or change the '/home' bit to '$HOME'

So I don't need the #!/bin/bash at the beginning of the script?

and then to call the script from the "Player Command:" box, do I need:


or just


Thanks for all your help!

i don't have a #!/bin/bash, though there is no harm in leaving it there.

as long as you have chmoded the file to 755, the command should be 'mplayerscript'

OK, I made the changes you recommended and chmoded the file to 755. When I try to play a video file, nothing happens.

I ran

from an xterm window, and received the following results:




It looks like it's having trouble determining what file it's supposed to be playing... like the %s variable isn't correctly passing the file data from the command line to the script. Am I correct that this is the problem? And how do I fix it?

ah yes in your shellscripts use $1 instead of %s.

$1 is for bash, %s is for mythtv

Perfect!! Thanks for all your helpful assistance! For the first time, my remote configuration works AND makes sense!

Sigh... We really need some way to tell who needs how much detail... So it's time for shell scripting 101.

OK, lets go through this line by line. First at the start of the script it's always good to be explicit about what it is. Here we tell the system "please treat this as a bash script". If in doubt the system will fall back on /bin/sh (which in this case is bash but it may behave differently when run as sh).

Next we run mod map to fix up the X keyboard mappings. Note that we're passing it an input file located in the home directory. The shell environment variable "HOME" is predefined to contain that directory path, and "$HOME" expands to the contents. Here probably "/home/mythtv".

Here we actually run the command of interest. Note how we use the special variable "1" which holds the first comand line parameter that this script is called with, and again "$1" expands to that parameter, here the name of the file you want to play.

Finally we put the keyboard mappings back the way they were.

After creating this script we need to do one more thing, mark it as executable. To do that run the command: Assuming of course that you called the script "myscript.sh".

Good job tjc. I guess I take what some people know for granted.

Anyways, I located the ati_remote.c file it is under /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/input/ BUT you have to 'tar xjf kernel-source-2.6.9-chw.tar.bz2' before hand (in /usr/bin/src/) so the symlink works.

My major problem now with the remote is that it is SUPER sensitive. You push the arrow and it will push 'up' or 'down' 3 or 4 times. This makes navigating menus extremely hard (Similarly when you push the escape button, it will escape 2 or 3 times).

The line that needs to be modified is on line 156. Here is an excerpt from the source:


Obviously the (HZ / 20) needs to be edited. Presumably changing the value of 20 to something higher will make the remote less sensitive. I'm unable to test this, as my mythtv box is being used as of the moment.

After making a change to the file, the kernel will need to be recompiled. NOTE: I'm not sure if the /usr/src/linux/.config is the same as the one knoppmyth used when compiling the kernel for distribution. I think you should be able to go ahead and compile the kernel as it is in the source and have it runnable. But I read the wiki (http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/inde ... gradeHowTo) and apparently to upgrade kernels to 2.6.8 and there had to be other tools compiled in seperatly.

Anyone know about what has to be done to compile the kernel extracted from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9-chw.tar.bz2?

you don't even have to compile the kernel all you have to do is compile the modules for what you are doing anyways. probably the easies and most pain free way would be to do a

make modules
then go find the one you want and copy it into place overtop of the old one and reboot. The reason I say this is if you do a
make modules_install then it will overwrite all modules which will break ivtv and you will have to reinstall that.

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Where would i have to copy to and from?

not sure haven't done it find out the module name and search for it. I know the install place will be under /lib/modules/2.6.9-chw/something/more/here/module.ko

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