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[MarcRandolph <mrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy Thomas,

Yes, please do try "true" and disabling the "brute force".  If that
resolves the issue for you, obviously it still needs to be understood
how or why it got set to false.  On the assumption it does help, the
first suspect in your case is likely going to be btlirc - any chance
you could try to recreate the steps you took?  Or at least document in
this bug as best you can remember?

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Can't start lirc: "lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474701
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Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “lirc” package in Arch Linux: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: lirc

I have a Lifeview Flyvideo 2000 tv card and I got it to work, but lirc refuses to work with the remote control. 

lspci:
01:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

dmesg:
[   19.201635] input: saa7134 IR (LifeView/Typhoon Fl as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:07.0/input/input5

cat /proc/bus/input/devices:
I: Bus=0001 Vendor=5169 Product=0138 Version=0001
N: Name="saa7134 IR (LifeView/Typhoon Fl"
P: Phys=pci-0000:01:07.0/ir0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:07.0/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5 
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=c0304 390000 0 0 0 0 0 0 c0000002 1e0000 0 0 10000ffc


And the remote worked when I did this: irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/eventX /tmp/my-remote

Now when I try to start lirc, I get this: 
$ sudo lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event5
lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
lircd: No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov  4 17:40:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48+ureadahead2-generic
SourcePackage: lirc
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686