Comment 6 for bug 42553

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jetpeach (jetster) wrote : Re: X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device

See this thread in ubuntuforums.org
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1264009
Apparently these are for TabletPCs??
While this may just seem like a nuisance bug, it does affect amarok scripts- for me, I could not configure the popular amarok replaygain script until I fixed this error by making the changes to my xorg.conf. My guess is the script doesn't continue to run when it gets an X-error, making it unable for me to get past the initial kdialog box. There are other cases where similar problems occur because of this error, not to mention that there are 8 duplicates of this bug files and having this error generally causes havoc for people, especially beginners, trying to debug problems (since they don't know that it isn't [probably] the real culprit of whatever bug they are having...).

So my vote is this should be considered a higher priority bug since it affects so much (every X program!) and these wacom sections should simply be commented out or removed asap from the xorg.conf, how many people use tabletPCs with ubuntu anyway?