lirc install issues

[Jon B. <jon...@gm...>]

Hi all.

I'm using a Hauppage WinTV Go Plus card in my MythTV combo MBE/FE  
system. I've got fedora Core 6 installed and followed the  
wilsonet.com tutorial to install. Kernel is the latest stable i686  
kernel. I can't get the RPM for lirc to work, so I downloaded and  
compiled lirc 0.81-pre4 and installed it. When I run make install, it  
installs fine. I have my configuration files in their appropriate  
places, and it *seems* to work. I modprobe lirc_i2c and then run  
lircd and irw responds and all works. I've got mythtv set up, and all  
is well. If that was the end of the story then I would call it a  
success story...

However, when I reboot, things go downhill. I copied the /contrib/ 
lirc.redhat to /etc/rc.d/init.d/lirc. I verified it has the paths to  
my files listed correctly, and did a chkconfig --level 345 lirc on.

My modprobe has this line at the top:

	alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c

and this one at the bottom:

	install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore- 
install lirc_i2c

I copied this script (which is supposed to make FC6 load the lirc  
module early in the boot) to my modules directory:

	# cd /etc/sysconfig/modules/
	# wget --no-check-certificate https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/ 
mythtvology/trunk/lirc.modules
	# chmod +x lirc.modules


----- So according to all that above stuff, this should make lircd  
start up and work when I boot, right? -----


Now, the really strange stuff. After rebooting, lircd doesn't respond  
to keypresses (irw fails to connect). I checked the log, it says it  
caught a signal... When I use /sbin/service lirc start, lircd starts  
and dies as soon as I try to connect to it. When I run lircd from the  
command line, it also dies. When I modprobe lirc_i2c and then try to  
start it (either by the /sbin/service lirc start or just by typing  
lircd in the command line) it also dies.

Now, if after rebooting, I go to the command prompt, sudo su - and  
make install on the lirc source (note, I don't do a make distclean or  
anything, so it's installing the same binary each time),  then  
modprobe and run lircd, it works fine.  If I don't reinstall it, it  
doesn't seem to matter what I do, it won't work.

Does anybody know what's wrong?

~Jon