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I am running maverick, updated to the latest as of 2nd October.

I have an IR-Receiver that uses the mceusb module. HAL sees it and wants
to add it as an input.keyboard which causes havoc with mythtv because it
revceives input from the HAL keyboard device and lircd.

I disabled the device with the following
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
 <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="IR-receiver">
    <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
 </match>
</device>
<device>
 <match key="info.product" contains_ncase="infrared">
    <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
 </match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>


according to lshal, it is ignored :


udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/121'
  info.ignore = true  (bool)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_2040_9950_4027380356'  (string)
  info.product = 'Ignored Device'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ignored-device'  (string)
  input.device = '/dev/input/event6'  (string)
  input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_2040_9950_4027380356'  (string)
  input.product = 'IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver'  (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event6'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:06:01.2/usb3/3-1/input/input6/event6'  (string)


however, Xorg still adds it as an input according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the input it still sent to my terminals in X.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Xorg adds input devices that HAL marks as ignored (maverick)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653719
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