Comment 8 for bug 190018

bve wrote:
> Sorry if this is the wrong place to post.
>
> I am running an up to date Hardy with lirc - 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7
> installed and I have no support for my remote - no device is being
> created.
>
> I have the ASUS MyCinema-P7131 Analog which uses the same PC-39 remote
> as the Hybrid, the TV / radio functions fine, yet no device is being
> created for the remote.
>
>>From what I read in the post
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/190018/comments/5
> above this should be working, I have posted in the forums
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=798593 with 0 responses.
>
> What am I missing? Is this a problem elsewhere, udev or hal, what can I
> do to try to resolve it, as every thread I have found pretty much leaves
> me looking for the device in the output from cat /proc/bus/input/devices
> which doesn't list the remote.
>
> I read somewhere about a patch, should I need to apply a patch given
> this is supposed to be fixed with lirc - 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7?
>
> Again sorry if this is not the right place to be asking, however I am a
> bit lost on this.
>
This remote uses devinput. You will have to add in the
REMOTE_DEVICE=/dev/input/eventX after you identify which device it is supposed
to use. Place this in your /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

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Mario Limonciello
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