lirc does not have support for ITE8708 receiver

[Avi Schwartz]

Binary package hint: lirc

The Dell Studio XPS 16 (Studio XPS 1645) ships with an ITE8708 receiver which lirc does not have a driver for.

I tried with the ITE8709 driver but xev did not display any events generated by the handheld remote control.
I booted into Windows 7 to verify that the combination of the receiver and the remote control works and indeed it does.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 28 16:47:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lirc

[Jarod Wilson (jarod-wilsonet)]

This is now supported by the ite-cir driver that was merged in 2.6.39.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

Closing bug, as it's very old and a fix is committed,