Dia

[k_laurie]

OK I don't know what I am doing but I wanted to see if there was a flow chart creator and goggling suggested dia and Kivio. I tired to load both and both seem to install BUT when I tried to run from a terminal I got

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


In Contrast Kivio installed an icon on Kmenu (Office) and seemed to work well

The naive questions I have is

• 
  Does Dia not work because I do not have Gnome?

• Does Dia work OK even with the error? - When I went to the Dia Site I found a tutorial that I seemed to duplicate (well mostly)

I would appreciate some advice on this


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[dibl]

Re: Dia

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

This "error" is not serious, and is not related to your packages. It is about the wacom lines in your xorg.conf file, which are obviously not relevant to your system. You can ignore this.

[Snowhog]

Re: Dia

If one wishes to have these error messages stop, then just edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Open a konsole shell and type:

sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf

After you type in your passsword, Kate will open the file. Find the Section 'InputDevice' that has the Driver "wacom" entries. Put a # (comment out) in front of each line so you have this:

# 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

Then go down and find:

InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"

And comment those also (add the #) so you have:

# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"

Save and exit. When you reboot your system, you won't see the errors anymore.