Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch Series Development

[salvian]

Hello.
I have a problem with Bamboo P&T on Karmic. I installed linuxwacom-0.8.5-11 from source and did all the things from the first post, but still have nothing no pen, no eraser, no touch.

usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
wacom: v1.52-pc-0.4:USB Wacom tablet driver
usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13
usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Wacom BambooFun 2FG 6x8 Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/input/input24
input: Wacom BambooFun 2FG 6x8 Finger as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.1/input/input25
device input24 is bound to the driver
device input25 is bound to the driver
must rebind

means driver is ok, I suppose. But I have nothing on /dev/input/event* and /dev/input/wacom*
What can I do to help myself and linuxwacom?

Thanks.

[magick.crow]

What program does the eraser not work? I know I was a bit tricked by gimp. The pen and the eraser do the same thing. Trick? You can change ether end to do different things. You want an eraser? Just use the eraser end to pick eraser in the gimp tools menu.

Also in gimp settings make sure that you have all the different pen components set to screen and not disabled! Give me more details and I will give more help, I hope. Same thing in inkscape, make sure you have it turned on in the input settings.

[eWheeler]

Hello,

I just installed the CTH-460 (Bamboo P&T, 056a:00d1) using the 0.8.5-11 driver and the pen/eraser works quite well. After about 4-hours of reading posts and playing with the new Bamboo, I have a few questions and greatly appreciate any help you can offer:

1. The touchpad ("touch" device) is choppy and stops mid-stroke. Have I setup something wrong? (I have tried playing with the Suppress, Accel and SpeedLevel, but to no avail...)

2. The pad and cursor devices are not loading in Xorg:

(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "cursor"
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "pad"

Is there a "cursor" device on the CTH-460? If so, what does it do?

3. Can someone point me in the direction of gesture documentation (Slide/Ring)? Specifically I am looking for scrolling --- and zoom (ctrl+scroll) would be great too!

4. I have read that multi-touch is in development. What is the current state of multi-touch? Can someone point to multi-touch documentation?

Distro: Ubuntu 9.10/Karmic

Kernel:
Linux geektop 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Configuration:
Used Favux's thread (here) and picked up pieces here and there from many forum posts.

xsetwacom list

stylus     stylus
eraser     eraser
touch     touch

xinput --list --short

"Virtual core pointer"    id=0    [XPointer]
"Virtual core keyboard"    id=1    [XKeyboard]
"Keyboard0"    id=2    [XExtensionKeyboard]
"Mouse0"    id=3    [XExtensionPointer]
"stylus"    id=4    [XExtensionKeyboard]
"eraser"    id=5    [XExtensionKeyboard]
"touch"    id=6    [XExtensionKeyboard]

xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "DisplayLinkScreen" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "stylus"  "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "eraser"  "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "cursor"    "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "pad"   "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "touch"   "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "pad"
  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option "Type" "pad"
  Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "touch"
  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom-touch"
  Option "Type" "touch"
  Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "stylus"
  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option "Type" "stylus"
  Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "eraser"
  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option "Type" "eraser"
  Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "cursor"
  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option "Type" "cursor"
  Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

# I have a USB mouse and a generic laptop touchpad on this system
Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Relevent portions of the Xorg log:

(II) LoadModule: "wacom"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//wacom_drv.so
(II) Module wacom: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.6.4, module version = 1.0.0
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0
(II) Wacom driver level: 47-0.8.5-11 $
[... snip ...]
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) stylus: always reports core events
(**) stylus device is /dev/input/wacom
(**) stylus is in absolute mode
(**) WACOM: suppress value is 2
(**) Option "USB" "on"
(**) stylus: reading USB link
(**) Option "BaudRate" "9600"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "stylus" (type: Wacom Stylus)
Got range USB Bamboo maxX=0 maxY=0 maxZ=1023 resX=2540 resY=2540
(==) Wacom using pressure threshold of 61 for button 1
display range USB Bamboo maxX=0 maxY=0 maxZ=1023 resX=2540 resY=2540
(==) Wacom USB Bamboo tablet speed=9600 (38400) maxX=14720 maxY=9200 maxZ=1023 resX=2540 resY=2540  tilt=disabled
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) eraser: always reports core events
(**) eraser device is /dev/input/wacom
(**) eraser is in absolute mode
(**) WACOM: suppress value is 2
(**) Option "USB" "on"
(**) eraser: reading USB link
(**) eraser: threshold = 61
(**) eraser: max x set to 14720 
(**) eraser: max y set to 9200 
(**) eraser: max z = 1023
(**) Option "BaudRate" "9600"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "eraser" (type: Wacom Eraser)
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "cursor"
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "pad"
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom-touch"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) touch: always reports core events
(**) touch device is /dev/input/wacom-touch
(**) touch is in relative mode
(**) WACOM: suppress value is 2
(**) Option "USB" "on"
(**) touch: reading USB link
(**) Option "BaudRate" "9600"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "touch" (type: Wacom Touch)
Got range USB Bamboo maxX=480 maxY=320 maxZ=1023 resX=2540 resY=2540
(==) Wacom using pressure threshold of 61 for button 1
display range USB Bamboo maxX=480 maxY=320 maxZ=1023 resX=2540 resY=2540
(==) Wacom USB Bamboo tablet speed=9600 (38400) maxX=480 maxY=320 maxZ=1023 resX=2540 resY=2540  tilt=disabled
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger pad
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger cursor
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger eraser
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen touch

[magick.crow]

The gestures are working on my system but they don't work so well. The scale is 2 fingers moving apart. The scroll is 2 fingers moving together in what ever direction you want the page to go.

Read the Wacom site for more. They have vids and a manual for download there.

Don't know about your other questions as I just started last night.

[TheguywholikesLINUX]

What program does the eraser not work? I know I was a bit tricked by gimp. The pen and the eraser do the same thing. Trick? You can change ether end to do different things. You want an eraser? Just use the eraser end to pick eraser in the gimp tools menu.

Also in gimp settings make sure that you have all the different pen components set to screen and not disabled! Give me more details and I will give more help, I hope. Same thing in inkscape, make sure you have it turned on in the input settings.

It's not in a particular program, the eraser does not work in what ever I use it for.
xsetwacom list only gives me touch and stylus, no eraser input. And there is no eraser device listed in the gimp settings, I had already put the stylus on screen mode and it functions well with pressure sensitivity.

[gabe_rosser]

Hi All,

I've been trawling through the posts here but I can't find anything related to my specific problem... I hope I didn't miss anything obvious, I'm a bit new to this.

I have a Bamboo Pen (old school, no touch) and Karmic x64_86. It didn't work at all out of the box so I compiled and installed 0.8.5-11 Linux Wacom Project. Also copied the RC .fdi file into the appropriate location.

1) There are no entries in my xorg.conf relating to the tablet and

xxd /dev/input/wacom

returns no activity from the tablet. However the tablet works fine and

xidump -u raw stylus

does pick up activity so I'm guessing this is HAL rather than X?

2) I have a dual screen setup (two 1920x1080) and the tablet is mapped to the whole thing. I want to localise it to one screen, or even better, a subregion of one screen, to maximise the resolution and give me a natural ratio.

wacomcpl works fine for pressure changes, change from absolute to relative etc but seems to ignore all references to screen mapping. I've tried the following but it has no effect at all.

xsetwacom set stylus screen_no 0
xsetwacom set stylus twinview horizontal

any ideas folks? Thanks for your help, and all of the help you've already given me

[texaswriter]

GabeRosser> Navigate to the original post [abbreviated OP] and follow the instructions there. I would not recommend trying to custom compile from the website. If you follow the instructions exactly inj the Original post, with either the 0.8.5-10 or 0.8.5-11 PRE PATCHED that are in the links in that like same post you can't go wrong.

Good luck!!

Hi All,

I've been trawling through the posts here but I can't find anything related to my specific problem... I hope I didn't miss anything obvious, I'm a bit new to this.

I have a Bamboo Pen (old school, no touch) and Karmic x64_86. It didn't work at all out of the box so I compiled and installed 0.8.5-11 Linux Wacom Project. Also copied the RC .fdi file into the appropriate location.

1) There are no entries in my xorg.conf relating to the tablet and

xxd /dev/input/wacom

returns no activity from the tablet. However the tablet works fine and

xidump -u raw stylus

does pick up activity so I'm guessing this is HAL rather than X?

2) I have a dual screen setup (two 1920x1080) and the tablet is mapped to the whole thing. I want to localise it to one screen, or even better, a subregion of one screen, to maximise the resolution and give me a natural ratio.

wacomcpl works fine for pressure changes, change from absolute to relative etc but seems to ignore all references to screen mapping. I've tried the following but it has no effect at all.

xsetwacom set stylus screen_no 0
xsetwacom set stylus twinview horizontal

any ideas folks? Thanks for your help, and all of the help you've already given me

[moorking]

Thanks for sharing about touch series.

[texaswriter]

On another note, I ditched Gnome and reinstalled with Kubuntu. I reverted back to 0.8.5-10 so I didn't have to run a huge script that included

sudo modprobe -r wacom
sudo modprobe wacom
 xsetwacom list
xsetwacom <insert really long name of device here> touch off

just to disable touch everytime I boot [which is at the beginning of EVERY class even if the classes run right after each other.

As soon as somebody has done something new to the drivers so the touch isn't so buggy [mostly just concerned with the interaction when the stylus is in use], which by the way is the majority of my interest in the wacom pad right now, then I'll be sure to test that new version right away!!

Anyways, 0.8.5-10 is working great with Kubuntu by the way.

And once again, I don't offer any of these comments [or previous posts for that matter] as a complaint. I am completely satisfied in the performance of all the patched drivers since I started using them. All comments provided are intended for the continuous improvement of the driver.

Great job guys and keep up the great work. I can't wait to see the new multi-touch in action when it gets going.

[magick.crow]

2) I have a dual screen setup (two 1920x1080) and the tablet is mapped to the whole thing. I want to localise it to one screen, or even better, a subregion of one screen, to maximise the resolution and give me a natural ratio.

wacomcpl works fine for pressure changes, change from absolute to relative etc but seems to ignore all references to screen mapping. I've tried the following but it has no effect at all.

xsetwacom set stylus screen_no 0
xsetwacom set stylus twinview horizontal

any ideas folks? Thanks for your help, and all of the help you've already given me [/QUOTE]

I don't know why but the wacomcpl program has a bunch of settings that look like what you want and it says that they only work with Nvidia Graphics cards.