Pulseaudio fails due to module-lirc on Suse 12.1 64-bit

Pulseaudio will not start after reboot after having added the line “load-module module-lirc” to /etc/pulse/default.pa, version 1.1-1.2 Messages log:

Nov 25 12:40:49 DESKTOP pulseaudio[2560]: [pulseaudio] module-lirc.c: lirc_init() failed.
Nov 25 12:40:49 DESKTOP pulseaudio[2560]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module “module-lirc” (argument: “”): initialization failed.
Nov 25 12:40:49 DESKTOP pulseaudio[2560]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Nov 25 12:40:49 DESKTOP pulseaudio[2560]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
Nov 25 12:40:49 DESKTOP pulseaudio[2557]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Nov 25 12:40:50 DESKTOP ifup-dhcp: .
Nov 25 12:40:50 DESKTOP kernel: 40.440488] ALSA clock.c:236 3:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
Nov 25 12:40:50 DESKTOP pulseaudio[3067]: [pulseaudio] module-lirc.c: lirc_init() failed.
Am using pulse with my remote control to mute or change the volume of browser flash vidoes. Help would be very much appreciated

Tried downgrading pulseaudio to version 0.9.22, but no luck. The pulse server still crashes after I have added the line “load-module module-lirc” to /etc/pulse/default.pa
Any ideas anyone?