hp pavilion dv7 remote

[Husse]

What is a laptop remote?
Does this help?

[richyrich]

Hi, it probably is an InfraRed Remote. The link that Husse provided has that info in it. Scroll up that link (post), and start reading near the bottom of Step 1.
At least you'll be able to use some of those commands to find out what type of IR remote you have.

Richy

[richyrich]

Post by Husse on Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:06 am
What is a laptop remote?
Does this help?

There is a link there . . .

[Husse]

There is nothing in that link that would stop the computer booting
Please describe what you did in detail

[Husse]

Did you read my previous post?
How are we to help you if we don't know what you did?
There is nothing in the instructions in that link that would break Mint, you must have done something wrong
/dev is used in the instructions - if you did something completely different with /dev you might have problems
If you changed something in /dev/disk/by-path instead of /dev/input/by-path something strange will happen....
Please describe in as much detail as you can what happened - step by step
Unable to iterate IDE is a bug in shutdown for some systems

[DrHu]

i run the instruction i got from the link in terminal.

By details and step by step, people mean what were your results at each step, not a statement I followed all the steps and it didn't work type of reply..
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... rc#p155116
--from Husse link

Question
result from step 1

• lircd -d /dev/input/by-path/[YOURDEVICE] -H dev/input

--YOURDEVICE is /dev/input/by-path/yourdevice
--start from there: you will only need quotes (single ' or double") if you have a string of characters which include spaces or or other characters that are not accepted on their own by the OS,. try it without quotes ( ' or " ) first and see if the line works, then examine it to see where quotes might be needed
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Programmin ... Sheet.html

• Quote Marks
  Regular double quotes ("like these") make the shell ignore whitespace and count it all as one argument being passed or string to use. Special characters inside are still noticed/obeyed.
  
  Single quotes 'like this' make the interpreting shell ignore all special characters in whatever string is being passed.
  
  The back single quote marks (`command`) perform a different function. They are used when you want to use the results of a command in another command. For example, if you wanted to set the value of the variable contents equal to the list of files in the current directory, you would type the following command: contents=`ls`, the results of the ls program are put in the variable contents.