HOW TO: Install a LinuxWacom Kernel Driver for Tablet PC's

[M42]

Hello gali98,

I re-ran your tutorial this morning and my xrandr is still not working correctly. What rotation script are you running? xsetwacom seems to be working. Here is the output when I try to rotate the screen with xrandr.

ken@laptop3:~/Desktop/linuxwacom-0.8.3-2$ xrandr -o right
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
Serial number of failed request: 14
Current serial number in output stream: 14

Ken

[gali98]

First, make sure you have the restricted driver installed.
Next, make sure you have it enabled in your xorg.conf.
Refer to this section of my xorg.conf

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"nvidia"
	Option		"NoLogo"	"True"
	Option 		"RandRRotation" "On"
EndSection

Kory

[M42]

Hello Kory,

You hit it! I have the restrictive driver enable but I had not included the RandRRotation On option in my xorg.conf. It now work just as before.

Thanks!

Ken

[gali98]

Cool Deal! Glad you got it working.
Kory

[MisteR2]

Just wanted to say thanks for the howto! Everything works fine. Single entries for everything. Also I tied the trackpad disable button to my rotate script and that works okay (sometimes).

I'm still not able to devote the time I had earlier to tracking down the tablet switch, but hopefully, i'll be able to do so sometime soon.

Later!

[Favux]

Hi everyone,

Timo Aaltonen may have patched X so that it will work without the script. From Solar George here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=tablet At least if that's what * Add 176_remove_device_from_inputinfo.devices.diff. in the changelog means. He posted this two days after rec posted his script. See: https://launchpad.net/~tjaalton/+archive/ppa So if you see an xorg-xserver update and things stop working that's probably what happened.

Edit: Tom Jaeger posted another way to do things without the script today: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...xwacom-discuss Instead of "xsetwacom list" he suggests "xinput --list" and using those "names".

[martinjochimsen]

Hi Kory and Favux

Thanks for the great work of making our tablets to work as.....tablets!!! Kory's guide in post #104 worked for me as well. There is only one part that I didn't understand:

Find which event points to the wacom file. Now go back to the text
editor and hit ctrl+f for search and search that even (e.g. search
"event?" where ? is the number.)
That should put you in a device set. Within that device set, find
"input.originating_device." and copy it's value. Now go back to the fdi
file, and replace my value for the first device with what you just copied.
Repeat this procedure for the "wacom-touch" file and use that string for
the touch device in the fdi file.
Wow! What a mouthful! I just suggest trying my file first znd if it
doesn't work THEN try all that above.

Instead I did what Kory suggested and tried his 10-wacom.fdi-file...and it worked. I only got one problem (for now) and that is that wacomcpl won't remember my settings. Calibration works fine but I would like it to remember, that the button on the side of the stylus should work as doing a right-click. How can I make that work?

Martin

[Favux]

Hi martin,

Good to hear from you. Did you remember to do section 3 of the first HOW TO to make .xinitrc executable and add it to Sessions?

[martinjochimsen]

Actually no. I didn't think of combine the two howtos. I will try it right away...I'll be back!

[martinjochimsen]

It doesn' seem to remember. How much of the original howto should I do before I use Kory's new guide?

Martin