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Originally Posted by mmholt
I'm entirely willing to listen. Here's the questions again... If something unrelated to Calibre is claiming the device, why are only the marshmallow devices affected? If everything worked before a a Calibre update, how is the problem Linux?
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Because it was (mostly) broken before and it decided to break the rest of the way.
This morning, my USB connected 768x1024 (Portrait oriented) monitor (#3) that I use to View Books under edit went dark. Is it a Calibre problem? No... W10 either did an update or it died (it is 12YO

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OS level updates can happen. Shared resources can get updated (quietly) by other package installs. There are a lot of mostly functional (for reading) that are defective in following USB specs.
Kovid has already said that the MTP device connection NOW belongs to something else on your system.