Alex Wauck, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/891890/comments/10
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I think I'm just going to chalk this up to flaky hardware. That USB IR
dongle was rather inexpensive, and it was made by a company I'd never
heard of before.
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