Comment 21 for bug 459021

n3utrino: That don't work for me...

xbmc@xbmc:~$ sudo service lirc stop
 * Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC [ OK ]
xbmc@xbmc:~$ sudo irrecord -d /dev/ttyUSB0 irrecord.out

irrecord - application for recording IR-codes for usage with lirc

Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus(<email address hidden>)

irrecord: could not get hardware features
irrecord: this device driver does not support the LIRC ioctl interface
irrecord: major number of /dev/ttyUSB0 is 188
irrecord: LIRC major number is 61
irrecord: check if /dev/ttyUSB0 is a LIRC device
irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? --> close it, check permissions)