Comment 5 for bug 305321

Tried the program provided at http://linux.thaj.net63.net/. This appears to work.
I have also found the bug https://answers.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+question/54983. Following the instructions provided by "Aaron Whitehouse said on 2009-05-03" I installed lineakd to get evtest ($ sudo apt-get install lineakd). Trying this on /dev/input/event6 gave:
sudo evtest /dev/input/event6
Input driver version is 1.0.0
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x766 product 0x204 version 0x100
Input device name: "TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device "
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (Sync)
  Event type 1 (Key)
    Event code 113 (Mute)
    Event code 114 (VolumeDown)
    Event code 115 (VolumeUp)
    Event code 116 (Power)
    Event code 119 (Pause)
    Event code 130 (Props)
    Event code 140 (Calc)
    Event code 142 (Sleep)
    Event code 143 (WakeUp)
    Event code 144 (File)
    Event code 156 (Bookmarks)
    Event code 158 (Back)
    Event code 159 (Forward)
    Event code 163 (NextSong)
    Event code 164 (PlayPause)
    Event code 165 (PreviousSong)
    Event code 166 (StopCD)
    Event code 167 (Record)
    Event code 168 (Rewind)
    Event code 173 (Refresh)
    Event code 207 (Play)
    Event code 208 (Fast Forward)
    Event code 272 (LeftBtn)
    Event code 273 (RightBtn)
    Event code 274 (MiddleBtn)
    Event code 362 (Program)
    Event code 385 (Radio)
    Event code 402 (ChannelUp)
    Event code 403 (ChannelDown)
  Event type 2 (Relative)
    Event code 0 (X)
    Event code 1 (Y)
    Event code 8 (Wheel)
  Event type 4 (Misc)
    Event code 4 (ScanCode)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
^C
This suggests that by usinghttp://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/linux-input-layer-lircd.conf it might work. I will test when possible.