lirc device node disappeared (/dev/lirc/0)

[degreseven <rui...@co...>]

So, about a week ago while I was in the middle of watching a recording my
machine completely locked up solid-- first time that's happened to me, the
machine has been up & running for a year or so. After resetting it,
everything seemed normal, but the remote no longer worked (remote has worked
fine for several months). I found that the device node is not being created
(normally it is /dev/lirc/0). All I see now is...

>ramrod ~ # ls /dev/lirc*
>/dev/lircd

I have verified that both the lirc_i2c and lirc_dev modules are loading
properly with no errors, as well as the i2c_core module, and the lirc daemon
is running. As far as I can remember I have made no changes at all to the
machine in quite a while. I tried recompiling/ updating lirc, udev,
pvr-firmware, ivtv, kernel ... anything I thought might be related. This
changed nothing.

dmesg | grep lirc shows...

>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
>lirc_i2c: no version for "lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel tainted.
>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61


The only error message I can find anywhere (other than that 'kernel tainted'
thing above- which I don't think matters) is this...

>ramrod ~ # ivtvctl --reset-ir
>ioctl VIDIOC_INT_RESET failed: Invalid argument

But maybe I'm not getting the command right? I couldn't find any
documentation on the ivtvctl tool.

I am running gentoo, hardware is a Hauppauge PVR-150 with included remote.
current software versions I am running (since updating in the attempt to fix
my problem)...

kernel: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5
ivtv: 0.10.1-r1
pvr-firmware: 20070217
lirc: 0.8.1
udev: 104-r12

Last update before the crash was 3 months ago or so, nothing too old.

I have spend hours googling for solutions, but have found none. *Any* help
would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need any more info
about my system.

Thanks in advance.
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