Hi,

I have just repalce a failed HD and re-installed SUSE10. I had mt Leadtek Winfast2000 TV card working fine on the previous install with full remote control using irexec. On re-install the TV card works fine and for a short while so did the remote control. Not sure what changed but now lirc will not start and irexec reports that

irexec: could not connect to socket
irexec: Connection refused


irdadump reports:
09:12:24.326244 xid:cmd cae3bc29 > ffffffff S=6 s=0 (14)
09:12:24.414258 xid:cmd cae3bc29 > ffffffff S=6 s=1 (14)
09:12:24.502263 xid:cmd cae3bc29 > ffffffff S=6 s=2 (14)
09:12:24.590276 xid:cmd cae3bc29 > ffffffff S=6 s=3 (14)
09:12:24.678288 xid:cmd cae3bc29 > ffffffff S=6 s=4 (14)
09:12:24.766297 xid:cmd cae3bc29 > ffffffff S=6 s=5 (14)
09:12:24.854309 xid:cmd cae3bc29 > ffffffff S=6 s=* linux hint=0400 [ Computer ] (21)
ad infinitum.

Some functions work in the TV card via the remote - channel changing via the number pad but that is all. Rather frustrating after having all working well before.

Any ideas? Is there a process running that grags the ir port?

Thanks

Dave

Extra info - these are the process running on my machine:

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
3 ? 00:00:26 events/0
4 ? 00:00:00 khelper
5 ? 00:00:00 kthread
9 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
355 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
390 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
391 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
393 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
392 ? 00:00:01 kswapd0
982 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
1185 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2081 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2233 ? 00:00:02 udevd
2626 ? 00:00:00 shpchpd_event
2665 ? 00:00:00 khubd
2725 ? 00:00:00 kgameportd
4066 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
4071 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
4213 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
4224 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng
4237 ? 00:00:00 klogd
4312 ? 00:00:00 resmgrd
5181 ? 00:00:00 mdnsd
5189 ? 00:00:00 portmap
5197 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/0
5198 ? 00:00:00 lockd
5276 ? 00:00:00 acpid
5364 ? 00:00:00 sshd
5373 ? 00:00:00 kdm
5389 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
5390 tty7 04:51:08 X
5401 ? 00:00:00 kdm
5429 ? 00:00:00 ntpd
5441 ? 00:00:00 nscd
5517 ? 00:00:00 kde
5520 ? 00:00:00 master
5541 ? 00:00:00 qmgr
5544 ? 00:00:00 cron
5553 ? 00:00:03 hald
5587 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
5657 ? 00:00:00 powersaved
5717 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
5730 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5844 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
5845 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
5846 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
5847 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
5848 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
5849 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
5889 ? 00:00:01 hald-addon-stor
6047 ? 00:00:01 hald-addon-stor
6055 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
6110 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
6113 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver
6116 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
6119 ? 00:00:07 kded
6147 ? 00:00:00 kaccess
6148 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper
6150 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
6151 ? 00:00:13 kwin
6154 ? 00:00:07 kdesktop
6156 ? 00:00:25 kicker
6160 ? 00:00:11 klipper
6162 ? 00:00:03 kpowersave
6165 ? 00:00:05 suseplugger
6167 ? 00:00:04 susewatcher
6169 ? 00:00:07 maxemumtvguide
6178 ? 00:00:02 knotify
7197 ? 00:00:50 konqueror
7546 ? 00:00:00 kdesud
9638 ? 00:00:00 pickup
10014 ? 00:00:00 firefox
10019 ? 00:02:26 firefox-bin
10024 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
10034 ? 00:00:07 konsole
10035 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
10199 pts/1 00:00:00 su
10202 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
10254 ? 00:00:00 kIrDAd
10416 ? 00:00:00 rssservice
10417 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
10616 pts/1 00:00:00 ps


10254 looks like a possible problem but I cannot appear to kill it.

Dave

One thing that I love about Linux is the wealth of info available - pity it is scattered across the net. I found another bit of the puzzel - the remote control for my winfast TV card is based on a GPIO driver that is complied into the kernal - that is probably why I do get some control over the card. What I need to find out is where the scan codes for the remote are stored so that I can modify them to get full control. Any idea where to look??

Dave - again