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From: Manuel McLure <manuel@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] iMON remote, evdev, X and Kodi stopped working
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:10:59
Message-Id: CAGJrxsSQtPybzgwHMCwmhbHnbY90vQ-kw_qr_FDjNiZa+Ft5zg@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi all, I'm having a problem with my Kodi system. Unfortunately I don't use
2 the Kodi system very often (the system also runs as a general server on my
3 network so most of my work on it is done through ssh) so I don't know
4 exactly when this happened, but it would have been in the last couple of
5 months.
6
7 The problem is that the iMON IR remote stopped working at some point. I
8 have an Antec Fusion Remote Black case that uses an iMON LCD and IR
9 receiver. This was working fine with evdev/X/Kodi but at some point stopped
10 working, and since I haven't used the Kodi interface for a few months I
11 don't know exactly what broke it.
12
13 It looks like the most interesting information comes from Xorg.0.log:
14
15 ...
16 [217569.500] (II) config/udev: Adding input device iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)
17 (/dev/input/event4)
18 [217569.500] (**) iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Applying InputClass "evdev
19 keyboard catchall"
20 [217569.500] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)'
21 [217569.500] (**) iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): always reports core events
22 [217569.500] (**) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Device:
23 "/dev/input/event4"
24 [217569.500] (--) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Vendor 0x15c2 Product
25 0xffdc
26 [217569.500] (WW) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Don't know how to use
27 device
28 [217569.600] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)"
29 [217569.600] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
30 ...
31
32 I've tried googling "evdev Don't know how to use device" but haven't found
33 anything relevant. Does anyone have any clues about what I could be
34 missing? It looks like xf86-input-evdev 2.10.5 went stable back in March
35 2017, and I'm pretty sure that the remote was working after that.
36
37 --
38 Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org>
39 ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law,
40 no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft

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Re: [gentoo-user] iMON remote, evdev, X and Kodi stopped working Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>