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

[Favux]

That's what it is looking like. Or you didn't copy the wacom.ko into place. But remember for your original model of Bamboo you don't have to compile anything. The default setup in Lucid should have your Bamboo working out of the box. So you probably broke something with the compile.

[raderack]

the compile went well,the unique thing that failed is the copy command

sudo cp ./src/2.6.30/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
cp: impossível obter estado de `./src/2.6.30/wacom.ko': Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado

[Favux]

That I don't understand. The cp command looks correct. Did you check in ./src/2.6.30/wacom.ko that a wacom.ko was compiled (present)?

By the way you didn't do 'sudo make install' did you?

[raderack]

That I don't understand. The cp command looks correct. Did you check in ./src/2.6.30/wacom.ko that a wacom.ko was compiled (present)?

By the way you didn't do 'sudo make install' did you?

yes i made an sudo make install..

[raderack]

and that tutorial need to be updated..

miguel@miguel-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto
Construindo árvore de dependências       
Lendo informação de estado... Pronto
linux-headers-generic já é a versão mais nova.
Os seguintes pacotes foram automaticamente instalados e não são mais requeridos:
  python-matplotlib kakasi-dic python-matplotlib-data kakasi ttf-lyx blt
  python-tk python-tz python-sqlalchemy python-pysqlite2 python-dateutil
  python-pyparsing
Use 'apt-get autoremove' para removê-los.
0 pacotes atualizados, 0 pacotes novos instalados, 0 a serem removidos e 0 não atualizados.

there is no src diretory..heare
the linux headers appears in

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic

[Favux]

Ok, that's probably why things are broke. Linuxwacom does not work with the Xserver 1.7 Lucid has. The wacom X driver that works with 1.7 is Xorg's new xf86-input-wacom which is now the xserver-xorg-input-wacom package available in Synaptics.

Not sure what your last post means. The src directory is in the unpacked linuxwacom tar that you downloaded.

[raderack]

Ok, that's probably why things are broke. Linuxwacom does not work with the Xserver 1.7 Lucid has. The wacom X driver that works with 1.7 is Xorg's new xf86-input-wacom which is now the xserver-xorg-input-wacom package available in Synaptics.

Not sure what your last post means. The src directory is in the unpacked linuxwacom tar that you downloaded.

ok found it,now what i do i move the .ko file to where the kernel headers are?

miguel@miguel-desktop:~$ cd linuxwacom-0.8.6-1/
miguel@miguel-desktop:~/linuxwacom-0.8.6-1$ ls
acinclude.m4    ChangeLog      configure     libtool      missing         src
aclocal.m4      config.guess   configure.in  ltmain.sh    mkxincludes
AUTHORS         config.log     depcomp       Makefile     mkxincludes.in
autom4te.cache  config.status  GPL           Makefile.am  prebuilt
bootstrap       config.sub     install-sh    Makefile.in  README
miguel@miguel-desktop:~/linuxwacom-0.8.6-1$ cd src
miguel@miguel-desktop:~/linuxwacom-0.8.6-1/src$ ls
2.4           2.6.11  2.6.16  2.6.24  2.6.8     Makefile.am  wacom.4x.gz
2.4.22        2.6.13  2.6.18  2.6.26  2.6.9     Makefile.in  wacomxi
2.4.30x86-64  2.6.14  2.6.19  2.6.27  include   util         xdrv
2.6.10        2.6.15  2.6.22  2.6.30  Makefile  wacom.4x
miguel@miguel-desktop:~/linuxwacom-0.8.6-1/src$

and yeah the compile didnt get generate the wacom.ko in the ./src/2.6.30/
so i have to wait a new version of tutorial?

[Favux]

Hi raderack,

You are missing the point. The only part of linuxwacom you can use is the kernel driver/module wacom.ko. The X driver part for Wacom is now the xf86-input-wacom. It is the only X driver for Wacom that works with Xserver 1.7. You can clone the latest one from the git repository or download the 0.10.6 tar and compile it.

Since you didn't succesfully compile a wacom.ko your system probably has the default wacom.ko that comes with Lucid. If you actually ran 'sudo make install' successfully then you overwrote the working xf86-input-wacom wacom_drv.so with the non-working linuxwacom X driver wacom_drv.so.

[raderack]

so how i get the working xf86-input-wacom that come with lucid back?..since the one i compiled isnt working..

[Favux]

I don't know for sure. The old way won't work. You can try changing directory into the unpacked linuxwacom tar you used. Then change directory into the "prebuilt" folder. Then:

sudo ./uninstall

Make a backup of your current wacom.ko in case this will remove it.

If it works then use Synaptic Package Manager or apt-get to reinstall 'xserver-xorg-input-wacom', which in Lucid is the xf86-input-wacom.