lirc with PVR-250 remote - Mandrake 10.1

[Mike G. <mg...@ho...>]

I'm having problems getting a PVR-250 remote working under Mandrake 10.1 
community. I set up everything according to the instructions, lircd appears 
to start without error, but I don't see any capture messages from irw.

Here are the installation details ---

Downloaded lirc-0.7.0 and built it from the source, setting the Hauppauge 
driver (5, f) with setup.sh before configure/make. I made sure to remove any 
lirc-related files that were installed by Mandrake. I removed all 
liblirc_client* files from /usr/lib and added links to the ones in 
/usr/local/lib after the build.
I then ran 'depmod -ae' and 'modprobe lirc_i2c':

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lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
rivatv: Video4Linux driver for NVIDIA cards
rivatv: Version 0.8.5
rivatv: MMX processor extension enabled
---------------------------------------------------------

In /dev there are three lirc items: lirc, lircd=, lircm|. lircd.conf is 
copied from the mythtv example file. When I start lircd I get:
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[root@localhost lirc-0.7.0]# lircd --debug --device=/dev/lircd 
--permission=666 /etc/lircd.conf -n
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: started server socket
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: parsing remote
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: parsing Hauppauge remote
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: config file read
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: lircd(hauppauge) ready
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: registering local client
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: using unix socket lirc device
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: registering local client
lircd 0.7.0[8458]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
---------------------------------------------------------

The last line appears after I start irw. irw receives sees nothing from the 
remote.

I tested the hardware and receiver under Windows 2000 and everything works. 
I had this setup working under Mandrake a week ago before reinstalling, so I 
feel like I must be skipping a minor step somewhere. Is there anything I can 
do to troubleshoot further?  Any help is appreciated, thanks!