LIRC (remote control daemon) doesn't work

Question

I have Pinnacle's Analog TV PCI card with remote (IR) controller. I want to use this remote controller to control XBMC.

I've read that I need LIRC daemon so I installed it (sudo apt-get install lirc) and selected Pinnacle Systems PCTV (pro) reciever as Remote control configuration (during LIRC setup). For IR transmitter I selected none (AFAIK I don't have it). Now the problems arise (cut out):

Setting up lirc (0.9.0-0ubuntu1) ...
ls: cannot access /lib/modules/3.2.0-23-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/lirc: No such file or directory
 * Loading LIRC modules                                                  [ OK ] 
find: `/sys/class/rc/*/': No such file or directory
 * Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC                              [fail]

Here is my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf. I've also tried this workaround

sudo ln -s /lib/modules/3.2.0-23-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/media/lirc /lib/modules/3.2.0-23-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/lirc

but it doesn't work.

How to make use of this remote control before I throw it out the window? :)

Answer 1

I had an issue with a Harmony Remote not working correctly. After walking round the internet for a few days, I came across this article on using ir-keytable.

After uninstalling LIRC, installing and configuring ir-keytable, I had the remote working as expected when running a trace using ir-keytable -t; however XMBC did not see the remote. After resinstalling the LIRC packages, XBMC worked correctly with no further configuration.

I don't know if it will work for you, but could be worth a try...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1754719