linux wacom for x61 tablet

[jerjozwik]

hello forum! sorry if this is in the wrong area, but this is more specific to the x61 so i figured i would ask here.

has anyone on this forum setup the linux wacom project with the x61 tablet? ive got the driver installed and when i configure xorg.conf and restart the machine i get a "screens not found" and can only work from the command line.

i used the settings from http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wacom_Ser ... _PC_Stylus because most of the linux-wacom project page deal with usb connected tablets.

if anyone has been successful in setting up the tablet screen in linux please help!

[Zuke]

Yes, I have and it sucked!

Newer versions of Ubuntu (what I used) don't use the xorg.conf. Also, in the newer versions, the wacom tablet should already be installed. The problem I was having was that the tablet wasn't returning device names that the 10-wacom.fdi (the driver) could recognize. Basically you had to run a script that told the system the correct names for each device, then run the wacomcpl to configure each setting. Then you have to edit your xrcint (if I can remember at all correctly) to rem out all commands to remember your current settings and not try and recalibrate it EVERYTIME you boot up.

Then you need to program the rotate button to actually rotate your screen 90 degrees, and then need to program the whole thing to remember your calibration settings when it has rotated, so the wacom rotates with the video.

After all this is done, it works quite well . . . except when it returns from hibernation or standby. Or random other times when using it and you suddenly have to re-run the calibration command. I find it useful to create a wacomcpl launcher on the desktop.

Topic for getting wacom to work: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ost7068115 (look at post #93 for the entire walkthrough)
Topic for getting screen rotation to work: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6274392 (post #1, method #3 is the easiest)

[jerjozwik]

Yes, I have and it sucked!

thanks, ill try some of this when i get back home tonight!

[jerjozwik]

ok, so i managed to copy and link that script all over my system.
im getting this message though

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# update-rc.d wacom-names start 27 2 3 4 5 .
 System startup links for /etc/init.d/wacom-names already exist.

does that mean anything to anyone?

[tamasrepus]

ok, so i managed to copy and link that script all over my system.
im getting this message though

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# update-rc.d wacom-names start 27 2 3 4 5 .
 System startup links for /etc/init.d/wacom-names already exist.

does that mean anything to anyone?

What you're doing when you run that command is setting up a program to run on boot (technically, something called a run level change). The command response is telling you that the program has already been setup to run on boot.

You haven't mentioned what distribution of Linux you're using... so you've made it difficult to help much. On Ubuntu and Debian (with X.org 1.6+ X11 server) my Wacom tablet worked out of the box, without having to set anything else up (other than calibration, which, as mentioned, was a bit of a headache when working with screen rotation, suspend/hibernate, etc).

[jerjozwik]

You haven't mentioned what distribution of Linux you're using... so you've made it difficult to help much. On Ubuntu and Debian (with X.org 1.6+ X11 server) my Wacom tablet worked out of the box, without having to set anything else up (other than calibration, which, as mentioned, was a bit of a headache when working with screen rotation, suspend/hibernate, etc).

yah, that was a big oversight, sorry. im running debian lenny. lots of what i am reading says that the linux wacom should be already installed. synaptic says its installed, but none of the wacom files listed in zuke's post or the linux wacom can be found.

[Zuke]

OK, what I did was sudo update-rc.d wacom-names defaults 27

That was all I needed to do, then a log off, log on. If you haven't already, download the wacom control panel. Once that's done, you just have to run wacomcpl, calibrate it, and you're good to go.

The problem is that the 10-wacom.fdi is looking for three devices (touch, stylus, eraser) and the device is actually returning three different names. So it IS installed, it's just that the driver can't communicate with the hardware. The wacom-touch script simply acts as a "rename this to that" on boot up and renames each device. Then, the calibration will work, and you're good to go.

On a only barely related note, I found that my touch sensitivity was much higher in Linux than under Windows.

[tamasrepus]

yah, that was a big oversight, sorry. im running debian lenny. lots of what i am reading says that the linux wacom should be already installed. synaptic says its installed, but none of the wacom files listed in zuke's post or the linux wacom can be found.

Hrm, Debian Lenny doesn't use X.org 1.6.x so it doesn't have any of the auto-detection bits.

[jerjozwik]

That was all I needed to do, then a log off, log on. If you haven't already, download the wacom control panel. Once that's done, you just have to run wacomcpl, calibrate it, and you're good to go.

running that pops up a nasty looking grey window. trouble is that it lists no tablets in the select list

On a only barely related note, I found that my touch sensitivity was much higher in Linux than under Windows.

good to know!

[jerjozwik]

Hrm, Debian Lenny doesn't use X.org 1.6.x so it doesn't have any of the auto-detection bits.

whats the current version? is lenny out of date?

[jerjozwik]

OK!!!

./wacdump -f tpc /dev/ttyS0 # Wacom digitizer on fake COM3

gets input updates from moving the pen around the screen and pressure. but only in little numbers in the terminal

so i go and edit /etc/X11/xorg.cong to be as so:

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# wacom

   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "cursor"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
     Option        "Type"          "cursor"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"     
     Option        "Mode"          "Absolute"
   EndSection
   
   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "stylus"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
     Option        "Type"          "stylus"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
   EndSection
   
   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "eraser"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
     Option        "Type"          "eraser"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
   EndSection

# This section is for Intuos3, CintiqV5, Graphire4, or Bamboo
   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "pad"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"          # SERIAL ONLY
     Option        "Type"          "pad"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
   EndSection
# End Wacom section


   Section "ServerLayout"
     InputDevice    "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
     InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
     InputDevice    "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
   EndSection

and i am still receiving an x cannot start error on bootup

[jerjozwik]

anyone have an answer to this?

[tamasrepus]

Can you post your Xorg.0.org file? Particularly, the last couple dozen lines from the end. It will contain the error.

The screens not being found error is usually from misconfigured devices, in your case, input devices.

[jerjozwik]

Can you post your Xorg.0.org file? Particularly, the last couple dozen lines from the end. It will contain the error.

sure thing. this is todays version. mind you i still do not entirely grasp the xorg.conf file

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X.Org X Server 1.4.2
Release Date: 11 June 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-10.lenny2)
Current Operating System: Linux mobildebian 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 07:12:04 UTC 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 11 June 2009  09:45:25AM
 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Sep  9 00:29:07 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
	Undefined Screen "Screen0" referenced by ServerLayout "Default Layout".
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file

Fatal server error:
no screens found
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor

[jerjozwik]

todays xorg.conf

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# wacom

   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "cursor"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
     Option        "Type"          "cursor"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"     
     Option        "Mode"          "Absolute"
   EndSection
   
   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "stylus"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
     Option        "Type"          "stylus"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
   EndSection
   
   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "eraser"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
     Option        "Type"          "eraser"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
   EndSection

# This section is for Intuos3, CintiqV5, Graphire4, or Bamboo
   Section "InputDevice"
     Driver        "wacom"
     Identifier    "pad"
     Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"          # SERIAL ONLY
     Option        "Type"          "pad"
     Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
   EndSection
# End Wacom section

#   Section "ServerFlags"
#     (...)
#     Option "DefaultServerLayout" "single"
#   EndSection

#   Section "ServerLayout"
#     Identifier     "Default Layout"
#     Screen 0 "Screen0"   0 0
#     InputDevice    "Mouse0"    "CorePointer"
#     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#     InputDevice    "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
#     InputDevice    "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"
#     InputDevice    "pad"   # For Intuos3/CintiqV5/Graphire4/Bamboo tablets
#   EndSection

# done

[jerjozwik]

hello everyone, ive finally gotten an xorg.conf that does not make X fail to start. only thing is now the wacom pen is still not doing anything on the screen.

and ideas? ill post whatever information is necessary. i just dont know were to go now.

[jerjozwik]

well it seems im going about this on my own but i figure ill give this forum another shot.
looking back to the linuxwacom project page i got the command

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xsetpointer -l

which should return:

[root@ayukawa log]# xsetpointer -l
"eraser" [XExtensionDevice]
"stylus" [XExtensionDevice]
"cursor" [XExtensionDevice]
"Mouse0" [XPointer]
"keyboard" [XKeyboard]

but instead im getting

user:/dev/input# xsetpointer -l
0: "Virtual core keyboard" [XKeyboard]
1: "Virtual core pointer" [XPointer]
2: "Configured Mouse" [XExtensionPointer]
3: "<default keyboard>" [XExtensionKeyboard]

any ideas out there?

[tamasrepus]

To the OP: Meh, I'm sorry I personally keep taking weeks to come back to this thread...

But, realistically, have you looked at upgrading to a newer version of Debian (the testing release) that has the newer Xorg? The time taken to debug this on an older version of X is time wasted, since you simply don't need to do it anymore for newer releases.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the newer Xorg autodetects everything, and there's no need to fiddle with these configuration files anymore to get hardware to detect (you need to fiddle with even weirder configuration files to tune things, but that's another story).

[jerjozwik]

upgrading, never even thought of it. i need to get more experience with using a linux distro as my main machine more before i want to start upgrading to the bleeding edge of testing software.

all in all it ended up being a linuxwacom configure issue. never added --enable-wacomdrv. as soon as that was done everything ran fine.