Howdy Thomas, Yes, please do try "true" and disabling the "brute force". If that resolves the issue for you, obviously it still needs to be understood how or why it got set to false. On the assumption it does help, the first suspect in your case is likely going to be btlirc - any chance you could try to recreate the steps you took? Or at least document in this bug as best you can remember?
-- Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474701 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to lirc in ubuntu. Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “lirc” package in Arch Linux: New Bug description: Binary package hint: lirc I have a Lifeview Flyvideo 2000 tv card and I got it to work, but lirc refuses to work with the remote control. lspci: 01:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01) dmesg: [ 19.201635] input: saa7134 IR (LifeView/Typhoon Fl as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:07.0/input/input5 cat /proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0001 Vendor=5169 Product=0138 Version=0001 N: Name="saa7134 IR (LifeView/Typhoon Fl" P: Phys=pci-0000:01:07.0/ir0 S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:07.0/input/input5 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event5 B: EV=100003 B: KEY=c0304 390000 0 0 0 0 0 0 c0000002 1e0000 0 0 10000ffc And the remote worked when I did this: irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/eventX /tmp/my-remote Now when I try to start lirc, I get this: $ sudo lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event5 lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid lircd: No such file or directory ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Nov 4 17:40:58 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=es_CL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48+ureadahead2-generic SourcePackage: lirc Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

