[mythtv-users] Lirc broken again

[Phill Edwards]

I'm running Fedora 12 and have just upgraded from 0.22 to 0.23 using
the ATrpms repo. Unfortunately this has resulted in lirc not working
yet again. It really does seem to be a bit of a problem child, does
lirc.

I found a thread at
http://old.nabble.com/wrong-major-number-problem-td28133597.html which
looked like the same symptoms as I'm getting, but the solution there
was to recompile from source. I only install from binary rpms so this
isn't an option for me.

This is what I see in /var/log/messages after booting:

May  7 22:07:07 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: lircd(default) ready, using
/var/run/lirc/lircd
May  7 22:07:15 elm smbd[1395]: [2010/05/07 22:07:15,  0]
smbd/server.c:457(smbd_open_one_socket)
May  7 22:07:15 elm smbd[1395]:   smbd_open_once_socket:
open_socket_in: Address already in use
May  7 22:07:15 elm smbd[1395]: [2010/05/07 22:07:15,  0]
smbd/server.c:457(smbd_open_one_socket)
May  7 22:07:15 elm smbd[1395]:   smbd_open_once_socket:
open_socket_in: Address already in use
May  7 22:07:17 elm kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver
registered, major 249
May  7 22:07:18 elm kernel: lirc_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
May  7 22:07:18 elm kernel: lirc_serial lirc_serial.0: lirc_dev:
driver lirc_serial registered at minor = 0
May  7 22:07:19 elm kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
May  7 22:07:19 elm kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3
device into 8x mode
May  7 22:07:19 elm kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device
into 8x mode
May  7 22:07:20 elm acpid: client connected from 1460[0:500]
May  7 22:07:20 elm acpid: 1 client rule loaded
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: accepted new client on
/var/run/lirc/lircd
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: could not get hardware features
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: this device driver does not
support the LIRC ioctl interface
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: major number of /dev/lirc0 is 249
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: LIRC major number is 61
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: check if /dev/lirc0 is a LIRC device
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: Failed to initialize hardware
May  7 22:07:23 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: accepted new client on
/var/run/lirc/lircd
May  7 22:07:25 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: accepted new client on
/var/run/lirc/lircd
May  7 22:07:31 elm lircd-0.8.6[1166]: accepted new client on
/var/run/lirc/lircd
...
May  7 22:07:39 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be4028b
4be4028b 7b53d 7b518
May  7 22:08:19 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be402b3
4be402b3 85bd9 85bb2
May  7 22:08:28 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be402bc
4be402bc 87726 87700
May  7 22:09:18 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be402ee
4be402ee 93512 934eb
May  7 22:09:34 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be402fe
4be402fe 973a9 97384
May  7 22:09:45 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be40309
4be40309 99e83 99e5c
May  7 22:09:48 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be4030c
4be4030c 9ae19 9adf2
May  7 22:09:50 elm kernel: lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 0 0 4be4030e
4be4030e 9b879 9b853

Any ideas what I need to do to fix this?

Regards,
Phill