X error on Kubuntu

Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]
Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:27:23 -0800

Here's another error I've been getting on all my Kubuntu installs:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode:  146
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode:  146
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device

This happens whenever an X application starts, and sometimes when it opens a new window. Apparently it retries a couple times and succeeds, because I found one application that just gave up and wouldn't start at all. I don't remember which one now, not one of the X apps I'm currently using

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Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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Brian Bilbrey [bilbrey at orbdesigns.com]
Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:26:07 -0500

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:27:23PM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:

> Here's another error I've been getting on all my Kubuntu installs:
> 
> ```
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
>   Major opcode:  146

IIRC, that's the wacom stanzas and their refrence in "ServerLayout"

After installing *buntu, I edit the xorg.conf and remove all the Device stanzas for Wacom, and their correspoinding callout in the "ServerLayout". Restart X and the errors go away.

best,

.brian

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