HOW TO: Set up the HP TX2z and Dell XT & XT2 (N-trig digitizer) in Ubuntu

[mcoleman44]

I dont at the moment but I can get one. Which one do you want me to get?

[mcoleman44]

And if thats what hal is doing, then how do I stop it?

[Ayuthia]

There are two ways to accomplish this. The first is to configure the device through hal using the 10-linuxwacom.fdi or else we can set up the commands in the .fdi to ignore the hal entries and have xorg.conf configure it.

I think that the following entry should get it to work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <!-- N-Trig Duosense Electromagnetic Digitizer -->
  <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="N-Trig Pen">
    <match key="info.parent" contains="if0">
       <merge key="info.product" type="string">stylus</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wacom</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.Type" type="string">stylus</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.Button2" type="string">3</merge>
    </match>
    </match>
  </device>
  <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="N-Trig Touchscreen">
    <match key="info.parent" contains="if0">
       <merge key="info.product" type="string">touch</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wacom</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.Type" type="string">touch</merge>
    </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

I think that is all that is needed.

[mcoleman44]

Awesome! That worked for the stylus but Touch is still only working every other time.
And is there a way to get multi-touch to work too?

[mcoleman44]

Should I keep my xorg.conf the same? And the stylus works every time, but its only listed under xsetwacom list every other time. When its not listed I cant rotate the screen. Any Ideas?

[Ayuthia]

You will need to comment out the stylus and touch entries in xorg.conf at the ServerLayout section:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "X.org Configured"
#    Identifier    "Default Layout"
#    Screen        "Default Screen"
#    InputDevice    "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
#   Remove the comment below if you have an eraser.
#    InputDevice    "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"
#    InputDevice    "touch"        "SendCoreEvents"
#    InputDevice    "mttouch"    "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Please also look at post #693 again. I added a line to each so that they should be called stylus and touch instead of having to type N-Trig Pen and N-Trig Touchscreen.

[mcoleman44]

Thanks!
Stylus is always listed under wacom now but touch still isnt working and neither is multi-touch. Sorry.

[Ayuthia]

Thanks!
Stylus is always listed under wacom now but touch still isnt working and neither is multi-touch. Sorry.

Can you try using event11 for touch? It has been a while since I have worked with this firmware version so I apologize if I am taking you all over the place.

[mcoleman44]

Not a problem. Im just grateful for the help. event11 didnt work. And Im not sure if this will tell you anything but /dev/input/ doesnt have mt touch listed.

[Ayuthia]

Ok. Can you post an updated version of your Xorg.0.log file? I just want to see if there are any error messages for using event11.

As for the missing multitouch, it means that the kernel module is only able to find the single touch data for your device. Is this firmware the one that was used with Vista? If I recall correctly, rafiyr is looking for people to test this version and from the looks of your data, it might be a match.

After looking at your Xorg.0.log information, we can see if we should block out hal and just try xorg.conf.