HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

[Favux]

That looks fine. Did you by any chance uninstall xserver-xorg-input-wacom through Synaptic Package Manager?

[Favux]

Oh, we want to know what the output of 'lsmod | grep wacom' is now.

[eoakes]

Thank you Favux

I was trying to run gimp in freebsd, using a mouse. I decided that I would do better if I had a tablet. I purchased a Bamboo Pen and touch, but then realized that freebsd only seemed to suport the wacom serial tablets.

I installed ubuntu 10.10. I then found various directions for installing the tablet in linux, which I tried to use. I do not know exactly what I tried.

At that point the tablet stylus and touch worked, but I could not adjust parameters or button functions. The button to toggle touch did not work.

Since I found your thread, I have added a .xsetwacom.sh, .toggle-touch.sh, and commented out the wacom lines in my xorg.conf.

I have attached the xsetwacom.sh, xorg.cconf as xorg,conf.txt, and .toggle-touch.sh. I had to remove the . to attach them. I could not get the 50-wacom.conf to attach so it is cut and pasted below.

When I reboot with the tablet attached or hot plug the tablet, the tablet button are not set per the
.xsetwacom file.

After reboot:
eto@cedric2-l:~$ xsetwacom get "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus" PressCurve
0 0 100 100

After running .xsetwacom.sh from command line
xsetwacom get "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus" PressCurve
5 10 90 95

The tablet Button2 is still set to "1" as is Button1. Button 2 &3 have been set per ,xsetwacom.sh

I copied the key ctll t for Button1. I found, but that is not correct to run .toggle-touch.sh. If I type ctrl t from the command line it does toggle the touch pad.

What have I left out to make the .xsetwacom.sh run on reboot or hot plug?
How do I get button1 to run .toggle-touch.sh?
Why do not Button1 and Button 4 not get set per .xsetwacom.sh when other parameters get set correctly?

I can live with things working like they are, but they are puzzles.

Any help will be appreciated!!

Thanks again,

Tom Oakes

eto@cedric2-l:~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen eraser id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger pad id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]

50-wacom.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom class"
# WALTOP needs a patched kernel driver, that isn't in mainline lk yet,
# so for now just let it fall through and be picked up by evdev instead.
# MatchProduct "Wacom|WALTOP|WACOM"
MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "wacom"
Option "KeepShape" "on"

EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class"
MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet"
Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class identifiers"
MatchProduct "WACf|FUJ02e5|FUJ02e7"
Driver "wacom"
EndSection


# N-Trig Duosense Electromagnetic Digitizer
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom N-Trig class"
MatchProduct "HID 1b96:0001|N-Trig Pen"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Button2" "3"
EndSection

[mrernia]

That looks fine. Did you by any chance uninstall xserver-xorg-input-wacom through Synaptic Package Manager?

nope I didn't. Should I try?

the output from lsmod|grep wacom is:

wacom                  33261  0

as before...

[Favux]

Hi mrernia,

There isn't a good way to figure out the wacom.ko version I know about, but on my system the 0.8.8.10 wacom.ko is 37 not 33. So I'm wondering.

Let's try:

modinfo wacom

and see what that tells us. You can skip the alias: stuff.

We should also look at your Xorg.0.log. It's in /var/log.

[Favux]

Hi Tom,

Welcome to Ubuntu forums!

then realized that freebsd only seemed to suport the wacom serial tablets.

Some BSD folks were talking to the LWP about support in the last couple of months. I gather there are no plans to do it and the freebsd folks were sort of daunted by the task of porting xf86-input-wacom and the wacom.ko. So I don't know where that is.

The wacom.conf looks right as do the scripts. Button4 won't do left click. I haven't figured out why. You should be able to use it for something else.

The xsetwacom get command isn't quite working correctly, and hasn't for a while. I'm not sure when that happened. Reports have been filed on the bug tracker so they know about it. So that needs to get fixed. I don't know if that's affecting the touch toggle script or not. It shouldn't if:

xsetwacom get "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch" Touch

is returning on or off for you.

Probably the best thing is to try to re-clone the xf86-input-wacom git again (step II) on the chance it didn't install correctly or you missed a dependency.

[mrernia]

I've attached the Xorg.0.log, and here's the out from the modinfo, aliases omitted:

modinfo wacom
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
license:        GPL
description:    USB Wacom tablet driver
author:         Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz>
license:        GPL
description:    USB Wacom tablet driver
author:         Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz>
srcversion:     4217A1599A06072B693ED37
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.35-22-generic SMP mod_unload modversions

[Favux]

Hi mrernia,

I booted into Maverick and our wacom.ko's are the same size:

wacom                  33261  0

However the srcversion is different. Mine is the same in both Maverick and Karmic for the linuxwacom 0.8.8-10 wacom.ko. I don't know if this indicates yours is from a different linuxwacom or not but I'm wondering because your Xorg.0.log shows no sign of the wacom driver. This seems to indicate no usb communication with your tablet.

Your wacom.ko appears to be in the correct place. Could you check the compiled wacom.ko in linuxwacom 0.8.8-10 /src/2.6.30 by right clicking on it and looking at it's Properties and then compare it to the wacom.ko in /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet. They should be identical. It seems like somehow either you're not copying it into place or it's defective.

[mrernia]

they look exactly the same. Size and all. The only difference is that the one in /lib/... is owned by root. Guess it has been changed boottime, but anyhow... same stuff. should i try to change permissions on that file? doesn't sound like a brilliant idea, but atm I've no clue...

[Favux]

No, the one in the modules directory is a system file and it's suppose to be root. That's why you have to use 'sudo cp', otherwise you can't copy over a system file.

It doesn't make sense to me. Hopefully I'm missing something obvious. I'll think about it for a while.