shuttle vfd infrared receiver?

[Eric J. <al...@xm...>]

   As payment for participating in a (goofy, doomed) video-on-demand
pilot, I've come into possession of a Shuttle M2000 Media Center settop.

   Of course, it came with windows media center edition, but i don't
want to go there at all. 

   Does anybody have any idea how to work the Shuttle infrared receiver?
I've heard that it's part of the vfd usb device. hiddev finds a couple
different hid devices on the vfd, I've got evdev loaded, but the only
dev/input devices that make any noise in hexdump are the keyboard and
mouse. 

   Should i be using one of the mceusb drivers or something? I've tried
loading lirc_mceusb and lirc_mceusb2 but neither recognizes the shuttle
device. I suppose i could try adding the device id, but has anybody
tried this already?