Failed to open device while starting any X program

[Oliver Klee]

I'm using Kubuntu Dapper RC1 i386 (upgraded from Breezy) plus today's updates on an Athlon 1400 MHz system with 1GB RAM on an Asus A7A266 board with a Nvidia graphics card.

When I start any X program (be it a specific KDE program or something like xsidplay) from the command line, I get the following messages:

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

Yet, the application runs just fine.

[Oliver Klee (launchpad-oliverklee)]

My xorg.conf (not modified manually)

[Oliver Klee (launchpad-oliverklee)]

My machine's current Xorg.log

[Oliver Klee (launchpad-oliverklee)]

My machine's current kdm.log

[Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco)]

Does this issue still happens on Dapper Final?

[Oliver Klee (launchpad-oliverklee)]

Yes, this still happens on Dapper Final.

[Rodrigo Novo (rodarvus)]

Oliver,

this is a really strange error, indeed. I couldn't find anything wrong in either your configuration file, Xorg.0.org or kdm.log.

If possible, could you please start one of the affected programs on an *empty* directory, using "strace -a 100 -s 4096 -ff -o output.log <program>", and hit Ctrl+C as soon as you receive the above error message? Please send compress the contents of this directory and attach it to this bug message.

Thank you in advance for the feedback!

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Thanks for your report.
A workaround may be to comment out the lines:

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

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[druid (kapithan)]

I am sorry for my English, I use the translator. At me Kubuntu 7.04 and the same problem arises. How all the same it to solve, after all so should not be?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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