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The remote I purchased was a Media Center Remote Control / Receiver, RC118 / IR6065A / QIR606A / Q. This being a MCE certified device I thought it would be easy to set-up. However, it took a little more effort than expected. Fortunately the steps are easy, and it was a useful problem solving exercise.  System I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with kernel 2.6.32-31-generic for use as a server for XBMC version 10.1.  I received advice from Jarod Wilson of lirc that, lirc_mceusb is obsolete. This device is already supported by the in-kernel mceusb driver. So hopefully you are much luckier than I was in setting this up! Getting the remote to work Even though dmesg reported that I had a infrared receiver, lirc failed to recognise it when testing with irw. dmesg reports: [ 23.721796] generic-usb 0003: 147A : E03E .0003: timeout initializing reports [ 23.722033] generic-usb 0003: 147A : E03E .0003: hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [ Formosa21 eHome Infrared Transce...

The following guide is to assist installation of XBMC  onto an ACER Aspire Revo R3700 320G/ 2G RAM Mini PC  running Ubuntu 10.04. See also my notes on installing MCE remote for XBMC . Please feel free to suggest corrections or clarifications. Installation of Ubuntu 10.04 I installed Ubuntu 10.04 from USB. Instructions for this can be found at Ubuntu here . References https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=53812 http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Installing_XBMC_for_Linux Enable SSH Enable ssh for easy remote management. enable X11 forwarding, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config set, X11Forwarding yes enable SSH daemon with, update-rc.d ssh defaults restart SSH daemon with, service ssh restart on the server allow an X client with, xhost +[ip_of_client] To start a session with X enabled, ssh -X user@192.168.0.6 To copy a file from local to remote host use, scp local_file user user@192.168.0.6:/ho...