error messages

[Stafke]

I get a lot of error messages in console.
As an example, I entered:
sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf

What I get is:

DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kdeinit: Can't connect to the X Server.
kdeinit: Might not terminate at end of session.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kded: cannot connect to X server :0.0
kded: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.


Before kate starts.

I previously encountered some more messages stating "Bad device"-like stuff. I looked around on the forum and uncommented the following at the Server Layout Section in xorg.conf:
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"

I now get a tiny blue screen at startup (BSOD-images torturing my mind for a second again, thought I left that behind switching to Kubuntu) , but after that, everything started to run smoothly AND I got rid of the Bad Device - message (I don't remember exactly what it was, but it's quite common, I guess, so most of you might be familiar with it).

Could someone tell me what those messages mean, and how I can get rid of them? I'm not that confident in messing around with my xorg.conf, so I rather ask than try without knowing how exactly to solve it.

Thanks a lot,

[dibl]

Re: error messages

In addition to the three lines in the "ServerLayout" stanza of xorg.conf, that you have correctly commented out, there are three more stanzas supporting the wacom input devices, one each for stylus, cursor, and eraser, that look a lot like this:

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

For each one, you need to comment out the whole thing so it looks like this:

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

That should take care of it.

OBTW, to run kate as Super User, prefix with "kdesu", not "sudo", please.

[Stafke]

Re: error messages

Works indeed. Thanks a lot.

Didn't know about kdesu for X progs. Looked around the forum and I guess I'm lucky I have no conf files in my Home dir. I'll follow your advice in the future.