Issues with Generic Mceusb receiver after upgrade to 10.10

[Douglas Mackay]

Binary package hint: lirc

Issues with Generic Mceusb receiver after upgrade to 10.10

I've upgraded a 10.04 system to 10.10 and seem to have problems with my generic mceusb receiver (the receiver works fine in 10.04)

dmesg | grep lirc
[ 17.618734] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 249
[ 17.630203] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0

dmesg | grep mceusb
[ 17.630203] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0
[ 17.630222] mceusb 2-9:1.0: Registered Formosa21 SnowflakeEmulation on usb2:2
[ 17.630241] usbcore: registered new interface driver mceusb

cat /proc/bus/input/devices
...
I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (147a:e017)"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:04.0-9/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=fff 0 108fc326 217604100000000 0 118000 418000100001 9e968000000000 10000000

The device seems to be recognised and /dev/lirc0 is created but irw does not respond to any buttons. Using 'sudo mode2 - d /dev/lirc0' I do get output when buttons are pressed.

cat /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
TRANSMITTER="None"
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
REMOTE_DRIVER=""
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""
TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""
TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF=""
TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""
START_LIRCD="true"
START_LIRCMD=""
LOAD_MODULES=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""
FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"

Connecting a genuine Microsoft receiver to the machine using the same config works fine.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

This bug is old. Does it still affect you? if so , please let us know.

Otherwise, without further input, let's close this bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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