Martin McCormick wrote: > I do have an older USB card, for instance, that is a > SoundBlaster Extigy. I bought it second-hand at a swap meet and > in Debian, it records and plays just fine but had I gotten it > new, I would have been aggravated. There is a nice slick remote > control that came with the card and the only button on it that > does anything is the Power switch that you do not ever want to > accidentally press as it turns off and your OS is very unhappy at > the sudden vaporization of the device one was writing to or > reading from.
This is a different topic - there is the remote control group - http://www.lirc.org I've even dared to fix few things in the kernel driver to make a remote work properly - but it was ages ago. I than mapped manually the keys to action in different apps. regards
