Just updated my frontend to Ubuntu Karmic (9.10).

*Almost* everything worked out of the box...

Some minor problems, for which I have submitted a patch to ubuntu

Edit: Great news: the patch has been accepted, and the new version of LIRC 0.8.6 package will work out of the box...

To get the LCD screen working, edit the file /etc/LCDd.conf

Change:

Driver=curses

into:

Driver=imonlcd

and in the [imonlcd] section change:

Protocol=0

into:

Protocol=1

(check which LCD device you have, Protocol=1 is for the 15c2:0038 version)

That’s it