X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 158

[Derek Broughton]

Paul wrote:

> Everytime I try to open an X app from the console I see this:
> 
> my_username at my_computername:~/Desktop$ kicker
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 158
>   Major opcode:  151
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 158
>   Major opcode:  151
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> 
> Can anyone point me in some direction to investigate?

Either ignore it, or remove from /etc/X11/xorg.conf the two sections that
begin:

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver          "wacom"

In the interests of making everything work for everybody, the rest of us get
these annoying messages - sometimes to the extent that the .xsession_errors
file can get so large as to bring your system (or at least certain apps) to
a halt.  I'd remove them, except that then every time you upgrade xorg,
it'll complain about me editing the conf file
-- 
derek