HOWTO Get Tablet Functionality with Gateway M275 in Dapper

[brutimus]

Getting tablet functionality on a Gateway M275 tablet pc with Dapper is actually really easy. All you have to do is go into your xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and find the input device sections for the tablet (Driver "wacom") (theres 3 of them) and change the Option "Device" from /dev/wacom to match the device ID of your tablet. Mine (and a number of other people that I've read about) have been /dev/ttyS1. That may sound a little confusing, so here is the corresponding section of my xorg.conf file---


Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" # Change to
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection


Hope this helps anyone trying to get this working on Dapper.

UPDATE: I've also figured out how to get the tablet functionality of the M275 working in SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. I'm posting a link to that here just in case anyone is still having problems, they can read over that thread and maybe get some ideas of how to fix their problem. HERE (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/65054-sled-10-gateway-m275-tablet-enabling-wacom-tablet.html)

[tukster]

nice howto, i got my toshiba tecra working in no time.
only problem was to find out the port for input devices. but it can be found in device manager,

[brutimus]

I'm glad it worked for you. I guess I had forgotten about the dev manager telling what port. I just had the basic idea that it was somewhere around ttyS*, so I just tried 0 then 1, and 1 worked for me.