{"id":877,"date":"2007-08-07T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/kpresenter-doesnt\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T01:02:49","slug":"kpresenter-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/kpresenter-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"kpresenter, doesn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(after apt-get install kpresenter)<\/p>\n<p>$ kpresenter<br \/>\nX Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 170<br \/>\nMajor opcode:\u00c2\u00a0 146<br \/>\nMinor opcode:\u00c2\u00a0 3<br \/>\nResource id:\u00c2\u00a0 0x0<br \/>\nFailed to open device<br \/>\nX Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 170<br \/>\nMajor opcode:\u00c2\u00a0 146<br \/>\nMinor opcode:\u00c2\u00a0 3<br \/>\nResource id:\u00c2\u00a0 0x0<br \/>\nFailed to open device<br \/>\nkoffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: kpresenterpart.desktop not found.<br \/>\nkoffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Run &#8216;kde-config &#8211;path services&#8217; to see which directories were searched, assuming kde startup had the same environment as your current shell.<br \/>\nkoffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Check your installation (did you install KOffice in a different prefix than KDE, without adding the prefix to \/etc\/kderc ?)<br \/>\n$<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(after apt-get install kpresenter) $ kpresenter X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 170 Major opcode:\u00c2\u00a0 146 Minor opcode:\u00c2\u00a0 3 Resource id:\u00c2\u00a0 0x0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 170 Major opcode:\u00c2\u00a0 146 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/kpresenter-doesnt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-e9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4200,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/workaround-for-opal-prd-using-100-cpu\/","url_meta":{"origin":877,"position":0},"title":"Workaround for opal-prd using 100% CPU","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2016-10-20","format":false,"excerpt":"opal-prd is the Processor RunTime Diagnostics daemon, the userspace process that on OpenPower systems is responsible for some of the runtime diagnostics. 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