lirc is acting weird

[perry]

I'm getting some weirdness with lirc.. When I first start my computer, I'll get the following in /dev/lirc:

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localhost dev # cd lirc
localhost lirc # ls
0  61  c

Those are directories with nothing in them. I'll rmmod lirc_gpio and lirc_dev, remove the directories, then modprobe lirc_gpio, and I'll get the proper device in there:

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localhost lirc # ls -l
total 0
crw-------    1 root     root      61,   0 Dec 31  1969 0

It almost seems like "mkdir 0 c 61 0" is being run, instead of "mknod 0 c 61 0". Everything with lirc and my remote works perfectly after that, but it's an annoyance. Any ideas on how I would go about fixing this?

FWIW, I'm using lirc 0.6.6-r1 (.6.5 did the same thing) and a Leadtek Winfast TV2000 Deluxe. Everything was working normally w/ Gentoo sources 2.4.19-r10, and started acting weird when I updated to 2.4.20-r1 a week or so ago.

[perry]

Well, I got it to work again. Somehow, those directories had gotten stored in /lib/dev-state, so everytime I restarted the computer they were being restored. I removed them from there, got things going properly with my voodoo of rmmod and modprobe, then ran MAKEDEV. Rebooted, and everything was peachy. Well, it wasn't that simple, and involved more than one reboot, but that's the jist of it.

I was clued in by this line in my "everything" log:

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Mar 10 19:26:54 [devfsd] error copying: "/lib/dev-state/lirc/0" to "/dev/lirc/0"

[greg]

I've emerged lirc-0.6.6-r1 with a winfast2000XP deluxe card. I have not problems with the card but I haven't had any luck with the remote. When I run the irrecord program I get:

irrecord - application for recording IR-codes for usage with lirc

Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus(lirc@bartelmus.de)

irrecord: could not open /dev/lirc
irrecord: default_init(): Is a directory
irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? --> close it, check permissions)

lircd is running, if I specify the device as 'irrecord --device=/dev/lirc/0' I can get it to write a config file but when I run 'irxevent' I get:

irxevent: could not connect to socket
irxevent: Connection refused

Near as I can tell irxevent is complaining that /dev/lirc is a directory.. Is there a way to tell it to use /dev/lirc/0 which I believe is the correct path?

Greg