More info:

psavva@Spooky:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c00e Version=0110
N: Name="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event1
B: EV=17
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1241 Product=1603 Version=0110
N: Name="  USB Keyboard"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.7-3.1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-3/5-3.1/5-3.1:1.0/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=10000 7 ff800000 7ff febeffdf f3cfffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1241 Product=1603 Version=0110
N: Name="  USB Keyboard"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.7-3.1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-3/5-3.1/5-3.1:1.1/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=13
B: KEY=2000000 39fa d941d001 1e0000 0 0 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0d8c Product=000c Version=0100
N: Name="C-Media USB Headphone Set  "
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.7-3.2/input3
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-3/5-3.2/5-3.2:1.3/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: EV=13
B: KEY=e0000 0 0 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0003 Version=0000
N: Name="Sleep Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0E/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event7
B: EV=3
B: KEY=4000 0 0 0 0

I: Bus=0001 Vendor=1554 Product=4011 Version=0001
N: Name="bttv IR (card=139)"
P: Phys=pci-0000:02:01.0/ir0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event8
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=2c0814 100004 0 0 0 4 2008000 2090 2001 1e0000 4400 0 ffc



On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Panayiotis Savva <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have new info about this problem
> It seems that there may either be a permission problem of some sort.
> Please review the output below
>
> psavva@Spooky:~$ sudo lircd -n -d /dev/input/event8 -H dev/input
> lircd-0.8.3[17094]: lircd(userspace) ready
> lircd-0.8.3[17094]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> lircd-0.8.3[17094]: initializing '/dev/input/event8'
> lircd-0.8.3[17094]: can't get exclusive access to events comming from
> `/dev/input/event8' interface
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:50 AM, edmon <email address hidden> wrote:
>> after last update my remote stop working at all
>>
>> --
>> Lirc does not respond after upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 Beta
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279472
>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>> of the bug.
>>
>