Comment 16 for bug 204960

Mario, the fix for this is having HAL bypass the saa7134 infrared port. The most flexible way to do this is the adding and .fdi file ("remote.fdi" file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/)

This is the content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
 <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="saa7134 ir">
  <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
 </match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

... otherwise, remote controls for this popular cards will just not work with LIRC.