I have a Gentoo box that I just built with a Haupauge 350 tuner card. I'm using the 2.6 kernel.

I've installed lircd and it loads properly. I run 'irw' and the codes from my remote are displayed to the terminal. I kill irw with ctrl-c, wait 5 minutes, run irw again and now no codes are displayed. However the device, /dev/lirc/lirc0 and /dev/lircd still exist, modules lirc_dev and lirc_i2c are still loaded and lircd is still running. Even when I run irw a second time /var/log/messages still records 'accepted new client' and 'removed client', but irw provides no output until I kill lircd, unload the modules, reload them and start lircd again.

What's going on?

tia,
jpbarto

I don't know irw, but it looks as if killing it with
Ctrl-C doesn't release the lirc devices ... question:
why are you killing it?


Cheers,
Tink

irw (at least appears to be) seems to just dump what lircd recieves to the console... I don't think there is any other way to turn it off. irw is not required for lircd to operate, just a way of testing it.