[mythtv-users] LIRC still giving me grief. Hauppage grey remote.HELP!

[Robert Kulagowski]

> i've followed the instructions meticulously, one of the directives is to
> rm -rf the old /dev/lirc before installation of the new lirc package.
> here's what i have right now...
> 
> [root at mythbox log]# ls -al /dev/li*
> crw-r--r--    1 root     root      61,   0 Oct 27 21:51 /dev/lirc
> srw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 Oct 27 22:22 /dev/lircd=
> 
> which is what the instructions say i should...i think =).

devfs is trying to create a /dev/lirc/0 directory, where "0" will be the 
  61,0 entry.  You've already got a /dev/lirc which is the character 
mode device rather than the directory.  You can either ignore the error 
and make sure that lircd is looking at /dev/lirc, or you can do 
something like a modprobe -r ivtv and a modprobe -r lirc_i2c modprobe -r 
lirc_dev
sequence (check with lsmod that everything related to lirc and ivtv is 
gone), rm -rf /dev/lirc, killall lircd then modprobe ivtv again.  devfs 
should then create the directory and the /dev/lirc/0 node at that point. 
  Once that's done you can re-run lircd --device=/dev/lirc/0