Comment 16 for bug 454371

Ahhhh. If you only `modprobe cx18` and `modprobe ir_kbd_i2c` then your remote will act like an infrared keyboard. irw will not work as it needs the lircd daemon running before it will work as an ir remote for other programs. So I suspect that you have the correct modules loaded but... you do not have lircd running). Try `ps -ef | grep lirc` to see if it is running. If not (and probably even if it is running), you need to follow the instructions in message 10 above to compile and install lircd for the use of /dev/input/event# input. There are detailed instructions there for the required /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, /etc/lirc/lircd.conf and /home/<userid>/.lircrc files.

Just for fun I removed my compiled version of lircd and installed the current lirc package (apt-get remove lirc and then apt-get install lirc). This installs the 0.8.6 lirc... BUT... it is not the one that is needed for use of the remote with the Haupauge 1600 card as described in message 10 above.

When you have the proper lircd compile, installed and launched by rebooting (or executing `/etc/init.d/lirc start`) then you will get the keycodes when you run irw. And if you run irexec as a daemon you can direct translated keycodes to specific programs to get the effects that you want.