Comment 12 for bug 204960

@Mario: yes, for saa7134 -based cards, the .fdi file is needed.

The problem in the file is that I match the whole info.product string, so it works only for my particular card brand.

It would somewhat more generic to just match the "saa7134 IR" substring, like this:

<match key="info.product" contains_ncase="saa7134 ir">

@laga: following your instructions, the stopping lirc and starting inputlirc:

ariel@nahuatl:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop
 * Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC [ OK ]
ariel@nahuatl:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/inputlirc restart
Restarting inputlirc configuration
No /usr/sbin/inputlircd found running; none killed.
ariel@nahuatl:~$ irw
160 0 KEY_OK event6
9 0 KEY_8 event6
6 0 KEY_5 event6
b 0 KEY_0 event6
a4 0 KEY_PLAYPAUSE event6

it works. but this is with the remote.fdi blacklist installed. Not sure if you mean I have to remove it first?