This one had me going crazy, it was also locking my system on a reboot!

This is what I had to do.

edit the /usr/portage/app-misc/lirc/lirc-0.6.6-r1.ebuild
and added the –with-transmitter line to the configure block. Not sure if I could do this with a USE or not. I am still new to Gentoo, but loving it!!

emerge lirc
rc-update add lircd default
edit the /etc/devfsd.conf and add the following line
LOOKUP ^lirc EXECUTE /bin/mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0

Works great…

I found this on a German site, thanks to the Google translate feature!!