Wacom tablet doesn't work after installing drivers

[Kyosys]

I got this neat little wacom volito, which worked plug and play - I had a slight problem however, I have dual monitors, and if I had my pen at the left side of the tablet, it was on the left side of the left screen, and if I had it on the right side, it was on the right side of the right screen - fair enough, I thought. I tried installing the drivers, linuxwacom. the prebuilt drivers, to be precise. After I did that, the wacom didn't work at all. It's certainly still "functioning", the orange LED turns green when you draw on it, or click with the mouse, but my 'nux isn't registering it. I tried compiling linuxwacom, but that wouldn't work either, I got some compilation error.

[Kyosys]

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[Favux]

Hi Kyosys,

Why don't you try Loic2's or neko18's threads for help.

Re: your original screen mapping problem this may be of use:

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/multimonitor

Good luck!

[Kyosys]

Wow, thanks. I got my wacom to work again, but even with the link you gave me, the problem with the split area did not go away.

I use Xinerama, btw.

[Favux]

Hi Kyosys,

Good news that you got Wacom working again. I don't know what to tell you about the video thing. Since the screen mapping link didn't help that about exhausts my advice. Maybe try another thread in the Multimedia & Video forum?

[Favux]

Hi Kyosys,

I guess I could look at your xorg.conf and see if I can spot anything. Please attach it to your next post.

[Kyosys]

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
Option "MMonitor" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
Option "MMonitor" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
Option "MMonitor" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "pad"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "MMonitor" "off"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" LeftOf "Default Screen"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "pad"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "" "DDX"
Option "ForceMonitors" "tmds2i,notv"
Option "horizontal,reverse" "off"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "PairModes" "1280x1024+1280x1024"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
Option "EnableMonitor" "tmds2i,tmds1"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal,reverse"
Option "Mode2" "1280x1024"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "ForceMonitors" "tmds1,notv"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "PairModes" "1280x1024+1280x1024"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
Option "EnableMonitor" "tmds2i,tmds1"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection


thanks

[Favux]

Hi Kyosys,

OK, so the wacom drivers are reinstalled. And except for the screen thing your usb tablet is working correctly.

I don't see anything obviously wrong with your xorg.conf. I might have a quibble with organization though. I prefer to have the ServerLayout section at the bottom of the file with the "glx" section just above or below it. Not sure if there is a functional difference.

From what you are saying it is not clear to me which subsection of the Xinerama section you are implementing. I guess section 2 because you are using MMonitor off. Did you then map the stylus,etc to a screen (or each screen) with wacomcpl?

At that link:
http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/multimonitor
Notice the section title "non-TwinView and non-Xinerama setup" seems to describe your problem. This makes me wonder if for some reason Xinerama isn't being activated by the option in ServerLayout. Or alternatively if adding:
Option "ScreenNo" "n"
where n is the number of screens might help. With your setup, n=1 or 2 ?