Yes, I know I am way too lazy. So after a little research I came up with a workaround and now my remote is back alive.
Following laga's suggestion, you need to put the attached "remote.fdi" file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/ Also you need to modify the file to match your remote. In the line that reads: <match key="info.product" string="saa7134 IR (Compro VideoMate TV"> ...replace the string content with the string corresponding to your device (mine is a Compro videomate card). You can find the proper string to put there by doing: lshal > ~/hal-output.txt gedit ~/hal-output.txt ...and then search for "saa7134 IR". To confirm, under the same key you should see in hal's output a line that looks like input.device = '/dev/input/event6' (your event number may be different). That was the problem, HAL was locking that device that LIRC needed to use. ** Attachment added: "Make HAL ignore the remote control" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13267853/remote.fdi -- [Hardy] Lirc devinput (linux-input-layer) broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
