GVim causes X errors

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I have kubuntu 7.04 installed with most things running. I managed to bust my first install because GVim was giving X errors when run in a command tool. GVim did start, but even after following some advice regarding install of esd I could not get rid of the X errors. A stupid attempt with the adept package manager (I tried to install vim-gtk) resulted in kubuntu with no KDE (not really sure what happened there). Anyhow after a reinstall I managed to get back to wanting to install gvim.

Can anyone tell me what I should do to make the thing work reasonably from the command line? I did a source install for PCBSD (also KDE based) and that gvim worked flawlessly, but freeBSD always has a large number of patches.

Any ideas welcome
Robin

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Re: GVim causes X errors

I installed vim-gtk and now don't get any messages related to the esd device when starting gvim in a shell, but I still get X messages like this

~$ gvim
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

what is device 169?

Robin

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Re: GVim causes X errors

OK I solved this. Seems these device 169 messages are related to a tablet device. I fixed the problem by editing xorg.conf

sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf

found lines related to the wacom device and commented as follows

#Section "InputDevice"
# Driver "wacom"
# Identifier "stylus"
# option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
# option "Type" "stylus"
# option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
# Driver "wacom"
# Identifier "eraser"
# option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
# option "Type" "eraser"
# option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
# Driver "wacom"
# Identifier "cursor"
# option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
# option "Type" "cursor"
# option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection
..........
Section "ServerLayout"
......
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

hope this helps others with the same errors

Robin