Comment 76 for bug 445849

> My sound is now working flawlessly but now my MCE remote doesn't work?? The LIRC remotes list has changed for some reason. Oh well my sound is definitely more important than the remote.

You have to compile lirc for your new kernel.

This is how I do it. It isn't the best way but it works.

$ sudo apt-get build-dep lirc

Download these three files to a directory

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/lirc_0.8.6.orig.tar.gz
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/lirc_0.8.6-0ubuntu2.diff.gz
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/lirc_0.8.6-0ubuntu2.dsc

Then go into that directory and follow these instructions:

$ dpkg-source -x lirc_0.8.6-0ubuntu2.dsc
cd lirc-0.8.6/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Regards
Achim