Comment 17 for bug 204960

Ari:
So are there negative side effects to dropping that file in place with all
LIRC installs, or should it only be enabled on a case by case basis?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 23:52, Ari <email address hidden> wrote:

> Mario, the fix for this is having HAL bypass the saa7134 infrared port.
> The most flexible way to do this is the adding and .fdi file
> ("remote.fdi" file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/)
>
> This is the content:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
> <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="saa7134 ir">
> <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
> </match>
> </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>
>
> ... otherwise, remote controls for this popular cards will just not work
> with LIRC.
>
> --
> [Hardy] Lirc devinput (linux-input-layer) broken
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204960
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Mario Limonciello
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