Remote trouble in 7.04 as well as 7.10 with lirc_atiusb and x10 RF remotes

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Hi,

I am kind of lost after trying to get both my remotes to work in LinuxMCE, both in 7.04 as well as 7.10 and
 in both I get the same dissappointing results. I am running both versions of LinuxMCE in a VM,
testing this amazing system before I wreck my working server installing the final version ;-).

I have two RF USB remotes, both manufactured by X10 in China:

Medion USB remote,
receiver part no. 20016397,
remote P/N 20016398

and a new RF MCE remote control that came with the Hauppauge PVR150:
receiver CM23E,
remote OR22V.

I have found out that both remotes work with the lirc_atiusb driver.
Furthermore, I found out on several pages that I should blacklist the module ati_remote if I want the module atiusb to work.

For the medion, I found that the lirc.conf can be found on

http://www.koders.com/noncode/fid8742E9E0C85920802AECDF232C9DDF5079EA2092.aspx

for the OR22V on https://www.geexbox.org/sympa/arc/devel/2008-04/msg00001.html

So far so good. When I install the receivers I see in dmesg:

[ 1530.214576] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 1531.445124] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1533.372262] lirc_atiusb: no version for "lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel tainted.
[ 1533.376940]
[ 1533.376948] lirc_atiusb: USB remote driver for LIRC $Revision: 1.61 $
[ 1533.376982] lirc_atiusb: Paul Miller <pmiller9@users.sourceforge.net>
[ 1533.400653] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
[ 1533.754618] lirc_atiusb[2]: X10 Wireless Technology Inc USB Receiver on usb1:2
[ 1534.037559] usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_atiusb
[ 6731.629999] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 555677436 ns)
[ 6731.641732] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
[ 6731.940075] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 6733.123956] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 6733.239615] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
[ 6733.627036] lirc_atiusb[3]: X10 WTI RF receiver on usb1:3

and with lsusb:
dcerouter_68557:/usr/src/modules/lirc# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bc7:0006 X10 Wireless Technology, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bc7:0006 X10 Wireless Technology, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

so both remotes are at least seen when connected.

When I subsequently do lsmod | grep ati, I see

dcerouter_68557:/usr/src/modules/lirc# lsmod| grep ati
lirc_atiusb            19488  0
lirc_dev               16116  1 lirc_atiusb
cpufreq_conservative     8072  0
usbcore               138632  3 lirc_atiusb,uhci_hcd

so it seems that the lirc_atiusb module is linked to lirc_dev and usb_core

However, when I do lircd --driver=atiusb, it says:

dcerouter_68557:/usr/src/modules/lirc# lircd --driver=atiusb
Driver `atiusb' not supported.
Supported drivers:
        accent
        alsa_usb
        asusdh
        atilibusb
        audio_alsa
        bte
        bw6130
        creative
        creative_infracd
        default
        dev/input
        dsp
        dvico
        ea65
        irman
        livedrive_midi
        livedrive_seq
        logitech
        macmini
        mp3anywhere
        mouseremote
        mouseremote_ps2
        null
        pcmak
        pinsys
        pixelview
        sb0540
        silitek
        tira
        udp
        uirt2
        uirt2_raw
        usb_uirt_raw
        usbx

so it seems that the driver is not present after all?

Futhermore I found that there seems to be a problem with atiusb in the Ubuntu system:

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/l/lirc/lirc_0.8.2-0ubuntu8/changelog

As a newbie, I am out of options. Can anybody give me a hint?