I cannot see that this qualifies as a bug, it's more like a support request "How should I configure lirc"ยท it's also very old. Closing.
Please refer to the upstream mailing list at http://sf.net/p/lirc if you are still interested in this. ** Changed in: lirc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lirc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517304 Title: Lirc does not work; no remote's button presses visible in irw's output Status in lirc package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: lirc What else do I have to tell? ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Feb 5 00:30:11 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: lirc Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (xfce4-cpugraph-plugin:1646): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_set_border_width: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1684): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (xfce4-terminal:1687): Terminal-WARNING **: Unable to load terminal preferences. (firefox:1737): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times (firefox:1737): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/517304/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp