Lirc not working with apple remote in Ubuntu

I can't seem to get the apple A1156 remote to work at all.

I'm running Ubuntu.

I did
but "irw" doesn't recognized any key presses.

because you need right lircd.conf and IR receiver to know apple remote frequency.

dpkg-reconfigure lirc

Well, one problem was in Ubuntu Xorg was taking my IR commands and doing nothing with them... I had to edit the xorg.conf file to tell it to ignore the IR receiver.

Another problem was I had to install ir-keytable and change the protocol to NEC.

now it is working on my laptop... but when I connect this same USB IR receiver and remote to a desktop running the same OS, it doesn't work... just like on the laptop, it recognizes key presses with "irrecord" or with "ir-keytable -t" but it doesn't recognize anything with "irw" and until it does that it won't work in XBMC. I have no idea why it's not working... I copied all the config files I can think of from the laptop to this desktop... but can't get it to work there... must be missing something... i spent maybe hundreds of hours on it before I got it working on the laptop, so there must have been something I did that I've not done yet on the desktop. Wish someone would post some easy to follow instructions that actually work, on how to do this.

The part I was missing that nobody ever talks about, but is absolutely necessary, is editing the keymap.

I edit /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce file, and put in the codes I discovered from ir-keytable -t then run the -w option to import them.

did you managed it? does the Apple Remote works on the desktop?

I never did get "irw" working, but had the Apple remote working in XBMC in Ubuntu using ir-keytable.

But then I needed to re-format to use Fedora, and I can't get it to work again.

Actually, when I use "ir-keytable -t" there is no problem. It recognizes my button presses and has them mapped to the proper keys.

The problem is that XBMC doesn't do anything when I press buttons... so the OS sees my button press, but XBMC does not.

have a look here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=104541

(2012-03-19 04:35)Kissell Wrote:  The part I was missing that nobody ever talks about, but is absolutely necessary, is editing the keymap.

I edit /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce file, and put in the codes I discovered from ir-keytable -t then run the -w option to import them.

Code:

/usr/bin/ir-keytable -p NEC,RC6 -w /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce

Any chance you could detail roughly what you did to get this going? I have a hacked-together external Apple IR receiver and remote, which both work well for me in OSX on mac hardware. On a different generic hardware Ubuntu box, I plug in the receiver and it is recognized in dmesg. I'm trying to get ir-keytable / LIRC to play nice with it, but am unsure where to begin. Any chance you remember what you'd done?