Trouble with lirc not creating /dev/lirc/0

[Drewgrange]

I did the following:

emerge lirc (with hauppauge support)
/etc/init.d/lircd start

then lirc_dev and lirc_i2c were loaded (as told by lsmod)

but only /dev/lircd was created. No /dev/lirc or /dev/lirc/0. I didn't mess with the udev rules file and /etc/conf.d/lircd contains the following:
# Options to pass to the lircd process
LIRCD_OPTS="-d /dev/lirc/0"

I have i2c support built in to the kernel.

From dmesg:
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61

From /var/log/messages:
Jul 13 11:50:36 andrewlinux lircd-0.8.0[9727]: caught signal
Jul 13 11:53:00 andrewlinux lircd-0.8.0[15143]: lircd(hauppauge) ready
Jul 13 11:54:03 andrewlinux lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at ma
jor 61
Jul 13 11:55:46 andrewlinux lircd-0.8.0[15143]: caught signal
Jul 13 11:55:55 andrewlinux lircd-0.8.0[15228]: lircd(hauppauge) ready

When I try to run mode2:
mode2: error opening /dev/lirc/0
mode2: No such device

When I try to run cat /dev/lirc/0:
cat: /dev/lirc/0: No such device

I have tried to search these forums and google. There are tons of postings out there about this problem, but nobody seems to know how to fix it,, other than to make sure the udev rules are set correctly, which mine are.

Does anybody have any ideas? any possible log files that might give me more clues as to what I need to do?

I tried to do the following as found on a google search, but i get the same results:
mkdir /dev/lirc
mknod -m 666 /dev/lirc/0 c 61 0



EDIT:

Also, I tried unemerging lirc and deleting the /dev/lirc* files, then downloading the source and compiling it myself. The compile fails with the following errors:

[thdrcat]

I am having the same problem.

[nagjames]

same here

just did an emerge world after 2 months. mythtv is working fine but lirc-0.8.0-r3 doesn't create the device.
even if I create the device manually it still fails

tux udev # lircd -n
lircd-0.8.0[27183]: lircd(hauppauge) ready
lircd-0.8.0[27183]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd-0.8.0[27183]: could not open /dev/lirc/0
lircd-0.8.0[27183]: default_init(): No such device
lircd-0.8.0[27183]: caught signal
Terminated
tux udev #

after starting irw in a different shell

jtux samba # lsmod|grep lirc
lirc_i2c 10244 0
lirc_dev 14836 1 lirc_i2c
i2c_core 20992 13 lirc_i2c,cx88xx,bttv,it87,i2c_isa,wm8775,cx25840,tda9887,nvidia,tuner,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom
tux samba #

dmesg:
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
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[mlcraig58]

I was having this problem as well. I'm using the lirc_mceusb2 module. To get it to work I manually load the module using "modprobe lirc_mceusb2". This created /dev/lirc0. I then manually started lircd with "lircd -d /dev/lirc0". I added these two commands to my /etc/conf.d/local.start file so they would load at reboot.