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I have a generic PC with an external Apple USB IR receiver I hacked together. It works fine in OSX on both Apple and non-Apple hardware.

I see it detected by my Fedora 17 3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64 kernel as follows in dmesg:

Code:
[49043.071344] usb 2-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
[49043.159995] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=8240
[49043.159999] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[49043.160002] usb 2-1.2: Product: IR Receiver
[49043.160005] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc.
[49043.163498] hid-generic 0003:05AC:8240.000B: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0

I'm trying to get ir-keytable working with this, but keep seeing this:

Code:
[root@spider ~]# ir-keytable
Couldn't find any node at /sys/class/rc/rc*.
[root@spider ~]#
[root@spider ~]# ll /sys/class/rc/
total 0
[root@spider ~]#

Also, nothing changes in /dev/input when I plug/unplug the receiver.

I'm wondering where to go from here.

- Do I need LIRC? I have tried with and without, and have tried configuring with and without the "macmini" driver. I see nothing in irw.
- Do I need additional kernel modules/drivers? I haven't modprobe'd any.
- Could X / Gnome somehow be hijacking something?

Any advice would be appreciated.