[mythtv-users] Lirc problem - connection refused

[Don Brett]

I've installed lirc and  the modules load, but when mythfrontend starts,
I get a socket error:

>From myth messages:
2004-11-12 13:03:47 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org

2004-11-12 13:03:47 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: Connection refused
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2004-11-12 13:03:48 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.


>From irw test:
root at sanson:/mnt/store# irw
connect: Connection refused

>From ls -l /dev/lirc*:
crwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      61,   0 Nov 12 10:15 /dev/lirc
srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Nov 12 10:21 /dev/lircd=

>From lsmod:
ivtv-fb                25648   0  (autoclean)
lirc_i2c                3616   0  (autoclean) (unused)
lirc_dev                8528   1  (autoclean) [lirc_i2c]
tveeprom                7456   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ivtv                  788576   1  (autoclean) [ivtv-fb]
msp3400                19692   1  (autoclean)
saa7115                 7644   0  (autoclean) (unused)
saa7127                 7804   0  (autoclean) (unused)
tuner                  10208   1  (autoclean)
i2c-algo-bit            7144   1  (autoclean) [ivtv]
i2c-core               12676   0  (autoclean) [lirc_i2c tveeprom msp3400

saa7115 saa7127 tuner i2c-algo-bit]
videodev                5792   9  (autoclean) [ivtv]


Anyone know what I'm missing, or a clue of what to look for?  Thanks,
Don

Slackware - 9.1
Kernel - 2.4.27
Ivty driver - ivtv-0.3.1h.tgz (CKennedy)