Ben Griffiths wrote: > Ok, I loaded up irw and found the following lines in the output, > > 014 time([1131054771]) = 1131054771 > 14014 write(5, "Nov 3 21:52:51 marty lircd 0.7."..., 68) = 68 > 14014 open("/dev/input/event2", O_RDONLY) = 7 > 14014 ioctl(7, 0x40044590, 0x1) = 0 Looks like it is OK. That is probably the hex value of the ioctl, your strace just doesn't know how to interpret it. I can't think what else could be causing the problem. I guess you need to start asking the MythTV and/or lirc folks. Jon