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Got an annoying problem that I cannot work out so any help will be received with thanx.

Ok, whenever I try to edit a text file, say for example, /etc/apt/sources.list, this happens...

In a terminal (konsole) I input

':~$ sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list'

and konsole gives me this-

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
Major opcode: 146
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
Major opcode: 146
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
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
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-4793' to 'kded'
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
kate: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype application/pgp-keys

before opening the file which I want to edit. I can edit and save the changes to the file and they are executed correctly.

(The same sort of message used to be displayed by the terminal in Gnome when I called gedit to open a text file that I wanted to edit only it used to complain about dbus sessions or something.)

I am a relative newb to Linux so can't make head nor tail of this message-well that's not entirely true-I know xserver has something to do with my display (?) I think.
Can anyone help?

I am running-
Kubuntu Edgy
2.6.17-11 kernel

on a

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7310GW notebook
with
Via S3GUnichrome Pro IGP graphics
being driven by the
'openchrome' trunk driver

All replies received with thanx

dkaddict

I managed to solve this by doing the following (I was directed to the answer by someone else, I ain't smart enough to work stuff like this out on my own)

Ok

In a terminal I put

~'kdesu kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf'

and commented out the following-

#Section “InputDevice”
# Driver “wacom”
# Identifier “eraser”
# Option “Device” “/dev/wacom” # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
# Option “Type” “eraser”
# Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV43 # Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

#Section “InputDevice”
# Driver “wacom”
# Identifier “cursor”
# Option “Device” “/dev/wacom” # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV43 # Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

#Section “InputDevice”
# Driver “wacom”
# Identifier “cursor”
# Option “Device” “/dev/wacom” # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
# Option “Type” “cursor”
# Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV43 # Tablet PC ONLY
#EndSection

also I had to comment out

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Generic Keyboard”
InputDevice “Configured Mouse”
# InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
# InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
# InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”
EndSection

those three lines.

And then I had to turn off ACPI by editing /boot/grub/menu.lst.
~kdesu kate /boot/grub/menu.list

and added 'noapic' to the end of each of the kernel lines, eg

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-11-generic root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash noapic
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic
quiet
savedefault
boot

Saved exited, rebooted and all of the problems I had were gone.

Adding the noapic entry to the /grub/menu.list file also enabled the hotplugging of USB devices on my laptop, a problem I have been trying to sort out for ages.
I reckon there should be a how 2 for that cos I am always seeing posts which refer to the lack of hotplugging of usb devs.

Anyway, cheers for all of the support!

dkaddict