[mythtv-users] lirc_init error running mythfrontend

[Jason Livingston]

I'm installing MythTV for the first time and have been following
Jarod's guide through the whole process. Every step has proceeded just
as he described, but I'm getting an lirc_init error when I try to start
mythfrontend. The screen flashes blue for a split second as it loads
the myth UI, but it dumps back to the terminal.

I'm using apt-get and all the packages specified in Jarod's guide, so I
have the ATrpms custom kernel, nvidia drivers, mythtv-suite, lirc,
alsa, etc etc installed just as he instructed.

I installed lirc via the apt-get command mentioned in Jarod's guide and
got no error messages. I configured it to use a Hauppauge remote, even
though I don't have one yet. I had no complaints or error messages at
any step.

mythconfigure worked fine and it found my tuner and assigned channels,
mythfilldatabase worked fine (AFAIK), and mythbackend runs without
complaints. But when I run mythfrontend, I get the lirc_init error.

One strange thing is that /var/log/messages is showing entries from
lirc 0.7.0pre1. Wasn't apt-get supposed to install 0.7.0pre2? I did
this step exactly as in Jarod's guide though...

Thinking that lirc somehow didn't get installed correctly, I grabbed
lirc 0.7.0pre2 from lirc.org and installed it, but it wouldn't compile.
It kept complaining about i2c errors and unresolved symbols (lots of
inc_use and dec_use problems, plus more). But the ATrpms kernel has i2c
support installed, doesn't it? Just in case, I tried to re-compile the
ATrpms kernel, but that completely broke my system (no nvidia gfx, and
I couldn't get the driver to re-compile under the custom kernel, etc.),
and it didn't fix the lirc compile problem anyway. I went back to the
standard ATrpms kernel, and installed the latest version of the i2c
package and tried to recompile lirc, but that just made even more of a
mess, so I'm in the process of starting over from scratch now.

Anybody have a clue? Sorry I'm a bit of a newbie, though not totally
unfamililar with linux, I'm no expert either. My install was hosed and
I'm currently reinstalling FC1 right now, so I'll post the exact
specific error messages I was getting, next time I see them.

Thanks,
Jason

P.S. I'm using a Shuttle SN41G2 (nforce2 board) with onboard gfx &
network, my tuner is supported by a patched ivtv and is working fine
outside of mythtv.