Ok, here's the deal. I've run Ubuntu/Kubuntu on and off since 6.06 was released, but could never get rid of Windows. I'm a computer technician and got an early copy of Vista Business RTM, ran it for a few weeks to familiarize myself with it and then shortly thereafter wanted wanted to kill myself. After all of hte 3d eyecandy I couldn't go back to XP and with the recent release of WINE I'm satisfied with its compatibility with the windows programs I need to run. I now run Ubuntu Edgy.

So here's my problem. I wanted to use the Creative Zen Micro Touch 5GB with Amarok, read this guice http://thecrosstalk.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... nager.html and attempted to compile it from source with MTP built in. It didn't work so I removed it via sudo apt-get remove amarok-built (what I named the build package as suggested in this gentleman's guide) and then to free up all of the space the KDE libs that I no longer needed were taking up I also did sudo apt-get remove kde*. Then I attempted to install the latest version in the repos and whenever I go to launch it from the terminal I get this:

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
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
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



If you need any info in about my system, please tell me where exactly the needed info can be found, because, as you can see, I know my way around computers very well, however I've only probably 200 hours total using any form of Linux.

Thanks in advance

You attempted to install KDE or you did?

No, I didn't attempt to install KDE, but part of the guide that I was following required a bunch of KDE libs. Further down in the guide I linked to it says that if you wish to remove it and free up the disk space you can do sudo apt-get remove kde*. So I'm assuming that that pulled out some dependancy that Amarok (from the repo) needs that itsn't automatically installed, but I don't know.