I'm seeing this error message a lot...

[ubersoft]

it doesn't seem to affect anything, but it's *everywhere*, including when dpkg is installing packages from an apt-get session:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 147
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

Anyone know what this is? What input device is it having trouble with?

[caryb]

Re: I'm seeing this error message a lot...

Me to >

[ButteBlues]

Re: I'm seeing this error message a lot...

Check your Xorg configuration file for unnecessary entries like a WACOM tablet.

[javierrivera]

Re: I'm seeing this error message a lot...

As said, this are tablet related lines added to the xorg.conf to enable watcom-compatible tablets to work "out-of-the-box".

There are quite a lot of info about this in the forums.

Javier.

[Fenyx]

Re: I'm seeing this error message a lot...

The errors are safe to ignore. The reason for these "errors" is that xorg.conf is set up to work with Tablet PC's, which X sees as wacom tablets. Hence X tries to detecting the presence of a wacom tablet when trying to run anything GUI.

[ubersoft]

Re: I'm seeing this error message a lot...

ah... so my old wacom tablet will work! Actually I think it's an old graphire.

Anyway, I'll have to try this out. The last time I tried to set it up there were issues with the tablet working with a widescreen laptop monitor...

[Aiken]

Re: I'm seeing this error message a lot...

ah... so my old wacom tablet will work! Actually I think it's an old graphire.

Anyway, I'll have to try this out. The last time I tried to set it up there were issues with the tablet working with a widescreen laptop monitor...

Mine is a Graphire3 and it works. If all those messages are caused by the wacom entries I am prepared to put up with them. It is nice being able to plug in the Wacom tablet and not have to reconfigure X when I want to use it. The pressure sensitive pen works in gimp as well.