imon troubles

[Sean E. <dai...@gm...>]

Greetings,

I'm trying to get LIRC working with my Silverstone LC16m, and would 
appreciate some advice. I installed from CVS onto Ubuntu Dapper Drake 
AMD64 and I got an apparently clean make, then used checkinstall to 
create a .deb and install it. Upon reboot I saw what looks like good 
output in dmesg, so I fired up mode2. I entered a few buttons and saw 
codes on the screen, then mode2 hung my ssh terminal and dmesg had this 
to say:

[  155.364820] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: Driver for 
Soundgraph iMON MultiMedian IR/VFD, v0.3
[  155.364824] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: Venky Raju 
<de...@ve...>
[  155.365057] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: imon_probe: 
found IMON device
[  155.365062] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
[  155.365293] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: imon_probe: 
Registered iMON plugin (minor:0)
[  155.365533] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: imon_probe: 
iMON device on usb<1:2> initialized
[  155.365539] usbcore: registered new driver lirc_imon
[  179.650691] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: VFD port opened
[  179.673638] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: VFD port closed
[  193.109708] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: IR port opened
[  196.515957] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: 
usb_rx_callback: status (-110): ignored
[  196.517655] hub 1-0:1.0: port 6 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
[  196.517658] usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 2
[  196.517773] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: 
usb_rx_callback: status (-108): ignored
[  196.519481] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: 
imon_disconnect: iMON device disconnected
[  196.599405] usb 1-6: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 3
[  196.689947] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: imon_probe: 
found IMON device
[  196.689952] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
[  196.689962] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: imon_probe: 
Registered iMON plugin (minor:1)
[  196.689975] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: imon_probe: 
iMON device on usb<1:3> initialized
[  218.474734] /usr/src/lirc/drivers/lirc_imon/lirc_imon.c: IR port closed

At this point lsusb gives me...

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 15c2:ffdc SoundGraph Inc. iMON PAD Remote Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

...where before the PAD was on Device 2. Did it get kicked off the USB 
bus for bad behavior? ;] I am able to print text to the VFD using "echo 
`date` > /dev/lcd0". Does anyone have any insight into what I've done 
wrong here? I'm using a stock kernel image from Ubuntu, is the solution 
to perhaps compile a custom kernel?

Thanks very much,
-- 
Sean Evans