Archive:Configure your Cyberlink Media Centre Remote on Linux
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Introduction
Cyberlink Media Centre Remote Control is some £5 USB remote control.
It looks like this: 
On Linux (>=2.6.29)it is detected as some kind of keyboard/mouse combo. The device mostly generates keyboard presses, like "0", "1", "2", "XF86AudioPlay", "Enter", "Delete" and so on. But unfortunately not all buttons will work, like "Subtitle" or the 4 coloured buttons (DVD/Music/Pictures/Videos) - which will impair your experience with XBMC.
The solution here involves:
- Setting up Lirc and the remote as a devinput Lirc device
- Setting up a Lircmap.xml file
Credits go to MrLux's forum post [1]. I added a few correction as:
- Lirc config has a mistake because event id doesn't always match device id
- probably becose the post is kind of old Lircmap.xml was not complete
The config files here will get your remote going on XBMC 10.00 on Ubuntu Maveric 10.10.