Public bug reported: I see that the appleir module has recently been removed from the 2.6.31 kernel. Please restore it. I can see no reason given for the removal, but I'm guessing that it was because the Apple IR remote is now supposed to work properly with lirc. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are two major problems: first, it doesn't work out of the box (you have to follow the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir1-1/Karmic) and secondly, having followed those instructions the keys don't work well (no auto- repeat, need to wait a couple of seconds between key presses to register two key presses).
I will now go and file bugs to try to help make lirc work better (and I found of the order of half a dozen different bugs while trying to get this to work), but at this stage in the release cycle it would seem much better to restore the appleir module, which works fine, and try to target lirc support for Lucid instead. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: rrt 1582 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: rrt 1582 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0x90440000 irq 22' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9221 A1' Components : 'HDA:83847680,106b0800,00103601' Controls : 18 Simple ctrls : 10 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'default'/'C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed' Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' Components : 'USB0d8c:000c' Controls : 7 Simple ctrls : 3 Date: Fri Oct 2 10:10:10 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4e3dfdb3-fce1-4f20-9e8e-2d60d509634c MachineType: Apple Inc. Macmini2,1 NonfreeKernelModules: uinput vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat arc4 snd_hda_codec_idt ecb snd_usb_audio snd_hda_intel i915 snd_usb_lib snd_hda_codec drm snd_hwdep ath5k usbhid snd_pcm_oss i2c_algo_bit mac80211 sbp2 snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_dummy ath snd_pcm asix pl2303 applesmc snd_seq_oss usbnet video usbserial snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi iptable_filter led_class intel_agp output lp snd_seq_midi_event ip_tables mii agpgart snd_seq parport snd_timer snd_seq_device input_polldev cfg80211 snd snd_page_alloc btusb x_tables soundcore reiserfs ohci1394 ieee1394 sky2 Package: linux-image-2.6.31-11-generic 2.6.31-11.36 ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=56ee682c-b009-4f6d-b724-108e1e2a4186 ro quiet splash i915.modeset=0 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic RelatedPackageVersions: linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-11-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.19 SourcePackage: linux Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 WifiSyslog: WpaSupplicantLog: dmi.bios.date: 06/28/07 dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.bios.version: MM21.88Z.009A.B00.0706281359 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: Mac-F4208EAA dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.board.version: PVT dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 4 dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F4208EAA dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMM21.88Z.009A.B00.0706281359:bd06/28/07:svnAppleInc.:pnMacmini2,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F4208EAA:rvrPVT:cvnAppleInc.:ct4:cvrMac-F4208EAA: dmi.product.name: Macmini2,1 dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- Please restore appleir module https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440466 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs