Keyboard doesnt work

[rajil]

This is on Rasbian stretch and the vnc client is tigervnc-1.8.0 on linux. The keyboard presses are not being picked up on the vnc server.

Evdev is loaded on RPI,

$ sudo evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:      SEM HCT Keyboard
/dev/input/event1:      SEM HCT Keyboard
/dev/input/event2:      Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1934:5168)

Here is the log

$ sudo /usr/local/bin/dispmanx_vncserver 
Open display[0]...
info: 1920, 1080, 0, 0
Display is 1920 x 1080
Server bpp:16
Server bigEndian:0
Server redShift:0
Server blueShift:10
Server greeShift:5
19/10/2017 05:46:30 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5900
19/10/2017 05:46:30 Listening for VNC connections on TCP6 port 5900
open /dev/uinput returned 6.
First write returned 1116.
ioctl UI_DEV_CREATE returned 0.
19/10/2017 05:46:40 Got connection from client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:46:40   other clients:
19/10/2017 05:46:40 Normal socket connection
Open display[0]...
info: 1920, 1080, 0, 0
Display is 1920 x 1080
19/10/2017 05:46:40 Client Protocol Version 3.8               
19/10/2017 05:46:40 Protocol version sent 3.8, using 3.8
19/10/2017 05:46:41 rfbProcessClientSecurityType: executing handler for type 1
19/10/2017 05:46:41 rfbProcessClientSecurityType: returning securityResult for client rfb version >= 3.8
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Pixel format for client 192.168.1.128:
19/10/2017 05:46:42   32 bpp, depth 24, little endian
19/10/2017 05:46:42   true colour: max r 255 g 255 b 255, shift r 16 g 8 b 0
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Enabling X-style cursor updates for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Enabling full-color cursor updates for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:46:42 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFEC6)
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Enabling NewFBSize protocol extension for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:46:42 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFECC)
19/10/2017 05:46:42 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFECD)
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Enabling LastRect protocol extension for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:46:42 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFEC7)
19/10/2017 05:46:42 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFEC8)
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Using image quality level 8 for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Using JPEG subsampling 0, Q92 for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:46:42 Using tight encoding for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:47:00 Enabling X-style cursor updates for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:47:00 Enabling full-color cursor updates for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:47:00 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFEC6)
19/10/2017 05:47:00 Enabling NewFBSize protocol extension for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:47:00 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFECC)
19/10/2017 05:47:00 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFECD)
19/10/2017 05:47:00 Enabling LastRect protocol extension for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:47:00 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFEC7)
19/10/2017 05:47:00 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unsupported encoding type Enc(0xFFFFFEC8)
19/10/2017 05:47:00 Using image quality level 6 for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:47:00 Using JPEG subsampling 0, Q79 for client 192.168.1.128
19/10/2017 05:47:00 Switching from tight to tight Encoding for client 192.168.1.128
^C19/10/2017 05:47:11 Client 192.168.1.128 gone         
19/10/2017 05:47:11 Statistics             events    Transmit/ RawEquiv ( saved)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  FramebufferUpdate   :      3 |         0/        0 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  LastRect            :      1 |        12/       12 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  tight               :     39 |    449265/  8301644 ( 94.6%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  RichCursor          :      2 |       510/      510 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  TOTALS              :     45 |    449787/  8302166 ( 94.6%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11 Statistics             events    Received/ RawEquiv ( saved)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  KeyEvent            :     10 |        80/       80 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  FramebufferUpdate   :      4 |        40/       40 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  SetEncodings        :      2 |       136/      136 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  SetPixelFormat      :      1 |        20/       20 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  PointerEvent        :     44 |       264/      264 (  0.0%)
19/10/2017 05:47:11  TOTALS              :     61 |       540/      540 (  0.0%)