remote control works only a few minutes

[gs24 <gs...@gm...>]

Hi,

I tested lirc with a few programs (irw, xine, xbmc).
The problem is always the same, the remote control is working only a few 
minutes after system start. The restart of the lirc daemon has no 
effect. After system restart the remote control works again a few 
minutes. Under Windows XP the remote control works fine, so there should 
be no hardware failure.

My system:
GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4, 4GB RAM, AMD Athlon II X2 250, 500 GB SATA HD,
FireDTV C/CI (DVB-C with IR-receiver SetTop-Box connected over FireWire),
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala - kernel 2.6.32
lircd: version: 0.8.6, hardware.conf: see below; lircd.conf: 
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput
Because of changing input events I add the udev rule:
SUBSYSTEM=="input",ATTRS{name}=="FireDTV remote 
control",ENV{ID_CLASS}="ir",SYMLINK+="input/ir"

In the system log files are no entries for the time the remote control 
lost connection. All I found is:

...

Feb 11 20:25:25 freevdr kernel: [ 6.057736] input: FireDTV remote 
control as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:04:0e.0/fw-host0/input/input7

...

Feb 11 20:25:26 freevdr lircd-0.8.6[1385]: lircd(devinput) ready, using 
/var/run/lirc/lircd
Feb 11 20:25:26 freevdr lircd-0.8.6[1385]: accepted new client on 
/var/run/lirc/lircd
Feb 11 20:25:26 freevdr lircd-0.8.6[1385]: initializing '/dev/input/ir'

...

Feb 11 20:25:38 freevdr lircd-0.8.6[1385]: accepted new client on 
/var/run/lirc/lircd


I hope anyone can help me.




# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

#

#Chosen Remote Control

REMOTE="Linux input layer (/dev/input/eventX)"

REMOTE_MODULES=""

REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"

REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/ir"

REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="generic/devinput.conf"

REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""


#Chosen IR Transmitter

TRANSMITTER="None"

TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""

TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""

TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""

TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF=""

TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""


#Enable lircd

START_LIRCD="true"


#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file

#START_LIRCMD="false"


#Try to load appropriate kernel modules

LOAD_MODULES="true"


# Default configuration files for your hardware if any

LIRCMD_CONF=""


#Forcing noninteractive reconfiguration

#If lirc is to be reconfigured by an external application

#that doesn't have a debconf frontend available, the noninteractive

#frontend can be invoked and set to parse REMOTE and TRANSMITTER

#It will then populate all other variables without any user input

#If you would like to configure lirc via standard methods, be sure

#to leave this set to "false"

FORCE_NONINTERACTIVE_RECONFIGURATION="false"

START_LIRCMD=""