Hi Andrew,
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:14:36PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation 
on AMD64.  I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and 
the modules install and modprobe successfully:
# lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_i2c               14980  0
lirc_dev               20264  1 lirc_i2c
i2c_core               27776  6 
lirc_i2c,cx88xx,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_nforce2
relevant logs from the module insertion would be good. ON my knoppmyth
box all these modules produce pretty copious and useful output.
# grep lirc /var/log/messages | tail
Sep 24 08:10:19 wushu kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver 
registered, at major 61
Sep 24 08:10:19 wushu kernel: lirc_i2c: no version for 
"lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel tainted.
# dmesg | grep lirc
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_i2c: no version for "lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel tainted.
A bit of a dearth of log information :(
Once the modules are loaded, I can't talk to the /dev/lirc file with mode2 
or anything else, so I think there may be something wrong with the udev 
rules, the only entry I can find is in the /etc/udev/permissions.rules 
file:
KERNEL=="lirc[0-9]*",                           GROUP="video"
what device nodes are created?
# ll /dev/lirc*
crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 2007-09-23 16:27 /dev/lirc
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 2007-09-23 16:22 /dev/lircd
prw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2007-09-23 16:22 /dev/lircm
But lirc dissappears after a reboot, and sometimes lircd and lircm go as 
well, until I remove the kernel modules package and reinstall. (?)