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On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:10:45 GMT Manuel McLure wrote: |
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> Hi all, I'm having a problem with my Kodi system. Unfortunately I don't use |
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> the Kodi system very often (the system also runs as a general server on my |
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> network so most of my work on it is done through ssh) so I don't know |
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> exactly when this happened, but it would have been in the last couple of |
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> months. |
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> |
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> The problem is that the iMON IR remote stopped working at some point. I |
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> have an Antec Fusion Remote Black case that uses an iMON LCD and IR |
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> receiver. This was working fine with evdev/X/Kodi but at some point stopped |
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> working, and since I haven't used the Kodi interface for a few months I |
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> don't know exactly what broke it. |
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> |
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> It looks like the most interesting information comes from Xorg.0.log: |
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> |
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> ... |
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> [217569.500] (II) config/udev: Adding input device iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc) |
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> (/dev/input/event4) |
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> [217569.500] (**) iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Applying InputClass "evdev |
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> keyboard catchall" |
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> [217569.500] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)' |
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> [217569.500] (**) iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): always reports core events |
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> [217569.500] (**) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Device: |
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> "/dev/input/event4" |
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> [217569.500] (--) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Vendor 0x15c2 Product |
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> 0xffdc |
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> [217569.500] (WW) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Don't know how to use |
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> device |
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> [217569.600] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)" |
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> [217569.600] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" |
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> ... |
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> |
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> I've tried googling "evdev Don't know how to use device" but haven't found |
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> anything relevant. Does anyone have any clues about what I could be |
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> missing? It looks like xf86-input-evdev 2.10.5 went stable back in March |
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> 2017, and I'm pretty sure that the remote was working after that. |
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Sometime in autumn I had a similar symptom with a (non-gentoo) box running |
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kodi here. I had to reprogram the IR remote control handset, but wouldn't |
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know how to go about it with yours ... |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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