KMail crashes

[Derek Broughton]

mark Fraser wrote:

> In article <1179115806.17174.3.camel at black>,
>    J. Pablo\ Fernández <pupeno at pupeno.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I was running Kubuntu Edgy Eft, then I moved to Debian 4.0 for a short
>> while and everything was ok, but now, back on Feisty and I can't run
>> KMail anymore, it crashes:
> 
>> $ kmail
>> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>>   Major opcode:  145
>>   Minor opcode:  3
>>   Resource id:  0x0
>> Failed to open device
>> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>>   Major opcode:  145
>>   Minor opcode:  3
>>   Resource id:  0x0
>> Failed to open device
>> QGArray::at: Absolute index 0 out of range
>> KCrash: Application 'kmail' crashing...
>> ERROR: Communication problem with kmail, it probably crashed.
> 
> I've seen this before, but not for Kmail so what I'm going to say may be
> totally wrong. If you look in your xorg.conf you should see 3 lines near
> the end that relate to the wacom drivers, these need to be commented out.

They don't "need" to be commented out.  The BadDevice errors are not related
to the crash.
 
> #       InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
> #       InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
> #       InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
> 
> I've no idea why they've been automatically added as the only time they'll
> be needed is really if you've got a lap top.

Actually, it would be "if you've got a Wacom tablet".  They're just as
annoying for all the rest of us laptop users, but that's all they are - an
annoyance.
-- 
derek