[PROBLEM] Cyberlink/Sapphire remote not added to /dev

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I have a Sapphire remote, which is the same as the Cyberlink one (http://www.altechco.com/images/cyber.jpg ). This remote worked perfectly on other XBMC distros with the default Lirc installed. However, I had to change lircd.conf for it to work.

Now I have installed the latest version of Xbian and only the UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT and OK buttons are working. I’ve followed the tutorial at http://xbian.org/2012/12/configuring-a-remote/ but I failed at the first step. As so many other posts, my remote is not added to /dev. Below is the output for various commands.

lsusb

Terminal

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0766:0204 Jess-Link Products Co., Ltd TopSpeed Cyberlink Remote Control

dmesg

Terminal

[ 4046.208174] usb 1-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 4046.316930] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0766, idProduct=0204
[ 4046.316973] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 4046.316989] usb 1-1.3: Product: USB IR Combo Device
[ 4046.317007] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: TopSeed Tech Corp.
[ 4046.334935] input: TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input4
[ 4046.344218] topseed 0003:0766:0204.0005: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device ] on usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input0
[ 4046.376271] input: TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.1/input/input5
[ 4046.388110] topseed 0003:0766:0204.0006: input,hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device ] on usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input1

irw

Terminal

<no output>

mode2

Terminal

mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory

ls -Al /dev/lirc*

Terminal

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Apr 22 17:39 /dev/lircd -> ../var/run/lirc/lircd

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Terminal

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0766 Product=0204 Version=0100
N: Name="TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device "
P: Phys=usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=10000 7 ff9f207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=1f

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0766 Product=0204 Version=0100
N: Name="TopSeed Tech Corp. USB IR Combo Device "
P: Phys=usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.1/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=17
B: KEY=c0390 60d0c00 0 0 70000 4 118000 21f8 d001d804 9e0400 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: MSC=10

I’ve put XBMC into debug mode and tested my key presses. About 40% of the keys show in the XBMC log, the rest (about 60%) seem not to be working. I’ve also tried to add the Lirc configurations that I used in the past (see attached file), then update lircd.conf and restart Lirc, but that also didn’t help.

Any help with this will be appreciated!!