may loose keyboard input

AFAIK the Linux input device system doesn't provide sufficient information to distinguish between keyboards, mouses and IR receivers. For that reason g-l-p checks the human readable name of such devices to filter out keyboards during auto detection. Can you attach the contents of your /proc/bus/input/devices file (with all those devices attached)? Need this file to decide how to filter out the keyboard.

I also wonder why the device selection dialog doesn't show up during auto-detection, as you seem to have two input devices attached.

Sorry, but I was wrong on the situation that is given by the attached devices.txt
In fact I have only 1 BTC USB Multimedia Cordless Kit with 2 possible cordless devices
(keyboard and mouse) but only the keyboard is connected, as I otherwise use an USB
cord mouse.
Also the lirc_mceusb2 module is correctly loaded but the "Philips eHome USB IR Transciever and
Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC" used to connect my IRC does NOT appear as
an Linux Input Device (wrong?), it creates a /dev/lirc0.
Then, how to proceed with the gnome-lirc-properties?

Patrice, thanks for that information. I finally figured out how to retrieve the list of supported keys for an input device, so I commited this change: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-lirc-properties?view=revision&revision=31

> Use better method for filtering out keyboards during auto-detection.
> Currently just the device name is checked to contain the sub-string
> "keyboard". Now each input device with at least 85 keys is considered
> a keyboard. Should fix LP#221177.

Your USB IR Transciever is not listed as Linux Input device since lirc_mceusb2 only implements the LIRC interface, but not the Linux Input Device interface.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-lirc-properties - 0.2.7-0ubuntu1

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gnome-lirc-properties (0.2.7-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #218691)
    - Fix crash with ValueError in __init__() (LP: #226745)
    - Fix crash with error in io() (LP: #224954)
    - Better method for filtering type of IR device (LP: #221177)
  * debian/rules
    - removal of rmdir of the locale dir, since it is not empty anymore.
    - clean up of help/gnome-lirc-properties.pot
  * Bump to Standard-Version 3.8.0
  * debian/copyright:
    - corrected the location of the GPL-2
    - Addition of the copyright of Openismus GmbH

 -- Christophe Sauthier <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:42:36 +0200