[gentoo-user] iMON remote, evdev, X and Kodi stopped working

[gentoo-user] iMON remote, evdev, X and Kodi stopped working

[Manuel McLure]

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Hi all, I'm having a problem with my Kodi system. Unfortunately I don't use
the Kodi system very often (the system also runs as a general server on my
network so most of my work on it is done through ssh) so I don't know
exactly when this happened, but it would have been in the last couple of
months.

The problem is that the iMON IR remote stopped working at some point. I
have an Antec Fusion Remote Black case that uses an iMON LCD and IR
receiver. This was working fine with evdev/X/Kodi but at some point stopped
working, and since I haven't used the Kodi interface for a few months I
don't know exactly what broke it.

It looks like the most interesting information comes from Xorg.0.log:

...
[217569.500] (II) config/udev: Adding input device iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)
(/dev/input/event4)
[217569.500] (**) iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Applying InputClass "evdev
keyboard catchall"
[217569.500] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)'
[217569.500] (**) iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): always reports core events
[217569.500] (**) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Device:
"/dev/input/event4"
[217569.500] (--) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Vendor 0x15c2 Product
0xffdc
[217569.500] (WW) evdev: iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc): Don't know how to use
device
[217569.600] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "iMON Remote (15c2:ffdc)"
[217569.600] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
...

I've tried googling "evdev Don't know how to use device" but haven't found
anything relevant. Does anyone have any clues about what I could be
missing? It looks like xf86-input-evdev 2.10.5 went stable back in March
2017, and I'm pretty sure that the remote was working after that.

-- 
Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@mclure.org> <http://www.mclure.org>
...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law,
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]

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

Sometime in autumn I had a similar symptom with a (non-gentoo) box running 
kodi here.  I had to reprogram the IR remote control handset, but wouldn't 
know how to go about it with yours ...
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] iMON remote, evdev, X and Kodi stopped working

[Manuel McLure]

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On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Sometime in autumn I had a similar symptom with a (non-gentoo) box running
> kodi here.  I had to reprogram the IR remote control handset, but wouldn't
> know how to go about it with yours ...
> --
> Regards,
> Mick


Interesting. After checking out /var/log/emerge.log I'm now confident that
the remote was working after I upgraded to xf86-input-evdev to 2.10.5,
since that happened in March (shortly after it went stable) and I upgraded
nvidia-drivers in October when I changed out the video card and I'm
positive I tested Kodi with the new card and everything worked. I did do a
"emerge -e @world" update to profile 17.0 in early December and that could
have corresponded with the start of the problem, although I think I
remember testing it and everything working.

-- 
Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@mclure.org> <http://www.mclure.org>
...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law,
no man may kill a cat.                       -- H.P. Lovecraft

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