On 01/25/2017 03:12 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Control: forward -1 https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/issues/134 > > On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 14:55 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >> iio-sensor-prox[574]: Could not open input accel '/dev/input/event9': >> Operation not permitted > >> about once a second. I don't know why that package is installed or what >> it does but filling up syslog seems like the wrong thing to do >> regardless. /dev/input/event9 is identified as "Acer BMA150 >> accelerometer", fwiw. > > The package gets pulled in mostly because GNOME Shell recommends it. If you > don't use it, you can consider removing it. > > The package is useful on machines that have an orientation sensor. This sensor > is commonly seen on hybrid laptops that can also be used as a tablet. > > Recently, on debian-user, an Acer user reported similar issue. This is known > to > be a kernel bug. I'm not sure if this fix will be backported to the 4.9 tree. > And if that fix can fix your bug in particular. > Thanks. I think regardless of the kernel bug, iio-sensor-proxy should just print the error once, not over and over again.
Cheers, Julien
