Help! Streamzap remotes stopped working (udev?)

[Mark K. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi,
   I've got a couple of smallish Asus Pundit-R machines that run
mythfrontend. It seems that in the last few days they both have lost
communication with their respective StreamZap remotes. The machines
are fairly up to date Gentoo-based machines running gentoo-2.6.11-r11
kernels, udev and lirc-0.7.1. The last emerge was on June 23 and the
remotes worked after that.

   I'm wondering if this is possibly a udev problem?

   Even the little program called irw has stopped receiving button
pushes. I do see the StreamZap USB IR dongle responding (the red light
on top) to button presses. If I disconnect the USB dongle and then
reattach it I see this in dmesg:

usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 2
lirc_streamzap[0]: disconnected
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
lirc_streamzap[-1]: Streamzap, Inc. Streamzap Remote Control on usb3:3 atta=
ched
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0

but the system doesn't respond to the remote.

   Has anyone else solved or even seen a problem like this?

Thanks,
Mark

myth13 etc # ls -la /dev/lirc*
crw-rw----  1 root root 61, 0 Jul  4  2005 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Jul  4  2005 /dev/lircd
myth13 etc #

myth13 etc # cat /etc/conf.d/lircd
# Options to pass to the lircd process
LIRCD_OPTS=3D"-d /dev/lirc0"
myth13 etc #

myth13 etc # cat /etc/lircd.conf
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.7.1-CVS(serial) on Fri Feb  4 23:20:56 2005
#
# contributed by Christoph Bartelmus
#
# brand:                       Streamzap
# model no. of remote control: PC Remote
# devices being controlled by this remote: USB receiver
#

begin remote

  name  Streamzap_PC_Remote
  bits            6
  flags RC5|CONST_LENGTH
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  one           889  889
  zero          889  889
  plead         889
  pre_data_bits   8
  pre_data       0xA3
  gap          108344
  toggle_bit      2


      begin codes
          0                        0x00
          1                        0x01
          2                        0x02
          3                        0x03
          4                        0x04
          5                        0x05
          6                        0x06
          7                        0x07
          8                        0x08
          9                        0x09
          POWER                    0x0A
          MUTE                     0x0B
          CH_UP                    0x0C
          VOL_UP                   0x0D
          CH_DOWN                  0x0E
          VOL_DOWN                 0x0F
          UP                       0x10
          LEFT                     0x11
          OK                       0x12
          RIGHT                    0x13
          DOWN                     0x14
          MENU                     0x15
          EXIT                     0x16
          PLAY                     0x17
          PAUSE                    0x18
          STOP                     0x19
          |<<                      0x1A
          >>|                      0x1B
          RECORD                   0x1C
          <<                       0x1D
          >>                       0x1E
          RED                      0x20
          GREEN                    0x21
          YELLOW                   0x22
          BLUE                     0x23
      end codes

end remote


myth13 etc #