Comment 16 for bug 164627

I am also facing the same problem,

I backed up my old FDI file to lirc.fdi.old and then used the one from above. Reboot.
However, the problem was still there

Setup:
Intrepid 8.10 AMD64 (Mythbuntu)
2.6.27-5-generic
lirc 0.8.3-0ubuntu2
Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus (same remote control as Nova-T)

my Output from lshal:
...
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14f1_8802_logicaldev_input'
  info.addons.singleton = {'hald-addon-input'} (string list)
  info.callouts.add = {'debian-setup-keyboard'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keys', 'button'} (string list)
  info.category = 'input' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14f1_8802' (string)
  info.product = 'cx88 IR (Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus' (string)
  info.subsystem = 'input' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14f1_8802_logicaldev_input' (string)
  input.device = '/dev/input/event5' (string)
  input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14f1_8802' (string)
  input.product = 'cx88 IR (Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus' (string)
  input.x11_driver = 'evdev' (string)
  input.xkb.layout = 'de' (string)
  input.xkb.model = 'pc105' (string)
  input.xkb.options = 'lv3:ralt_switch' (string)
  input.xkb.rules = 'evdev' (string)
  input.xkb.variant = 'nodeadkeys' (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event5' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'input' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/input/input5/event5' (string)
...

Apparently the search string for info.product in the new fdi-file was looking for "IR-Receiver". I edited it and set it to "cx88 IR" instead. Now it works!

I aggree with the others that this should be really fixed soon! This bug screws basically all Remote Control users ... and give the popularity of e.g. Mythbuntu this might be a show stopper for a lot of them. I myself wasted some days trying to get the Remote control working before someone hinted me at this bug.

Cheers.