Comment 4 for bug 557289

I can confirm and reproduce this behaviour on Lucid with 2.6.32-24-generic-tuxonice (the tuxonice thing should not affect this at all). However, it doesn't start right after boot time, but only when I have tried and somehow failed to watch tv or scan for channels. I suspect it might have something to do with a firmware lockup problem concerning WinTV USB 29xxx models, but this is rather an impression. I am trying a workaround by blacklisting lirc_i2c (which seems to be working).

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