My guess is because LIRC doesn't ever seem to like to load properly
under that kernel.  Ever.  You can modify your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file
to try to get it to load properly.  The problem is basically that the
device is actually /dev/lirc0, but LIRC is looking for /dev/lirc. 
Making the rules file discussed in Jarod's guide doesn't work for me
under that kernel (it does work under 2.6.10 kernels, but not
2.6.9-1.724_FC3 for some reason).  Here's a copy of my rc.local file:

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ivtv
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
mythbackend &  <<----This is optional.  I just start my backend here
b/c of other IVTV problems.

This will set up a sym link between /dev/lirc0 and /dev/lirc.  This is
needed to address your
error that says:

Feb  8 16:30:35 Mythtv lircd 0.7.0[2917]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Feb  8 16:30:35 Mythtv lircd 0.7.0[2917]: could not get file
information for /dev/lirc
Feb  8 16:30:35 Mythtv lircd 0.7.0[2917]: default_init(): No such file
or directory

The other stuff just makes sure that ivtv is loaded before LIRC (also
necessary).  Add that stuff above to your rc.local, reboot, and then
try running

/usr/bin/irw

It should now load up and recognize remote control input.

-Andy



On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:48:22 -0800, Alex Harford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:38:53 -0500, James Olsovsky wrote:
> >
> > Feb  8 16:30:35 Mythtv lircd 0.7.0[2917]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> > Feb  8 16:30:35 Mythtv lircd 0.7.0[2917]: could not get file
> > information for /dev/lirc
> > Feb  8 16:30:35 Mythtv lircd 0.7.0[2917]: default_init(): No such file
> > or directory
> > Feb  8 16:30:35 Mythtv lircd 0.7.0[2917]: caught signal
> 
> What do you get when you run the command ls -l /dev/lirc*
> 
> This is what I get with a working setup.  I suspect that you might not
> have those device files set up properly.
> 
> crw-------  1 root root 61, 0 Feb  6 21:42 /dev/lirc
> crw-------  1 root root 61, 0 Feb  6 21:42 /dev/lirc0
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Feb  6 21:42 /dev/lircd
> 
> Are the driver modules loaded?  Try running lsmod to see if they are
> in the list.  I have lirc_i2c, lirc_dev loaded.
> 
> Alex
> 
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