Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch Series Development

[bromalex]

I don't take notes in GIMP, although probably could [won't though lol].

Did you try Xournal?

Here you get pen and eraser working.

Bye

PS: sorry for the mistake "texaswriter"

[texaswriter]

LOL, didn't come here looking for help, still got some great useful help.

Yeah, I tried Xournal and it works great, Just had to enable eraser tip in Options... Also has pressure sensitivity.

Thanks alot Bromalex

[HansHeinrich]

Many thanks for the great work! Switching btw Pen and Eraser seems to be working fine.
Touch did not quite work as expected out of the box (only using part of the screen, gestures do not seem to work). Being a Wacom-Newbye, I'll now do my homework of checking for proper configuration options
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Ubuntu 9.10

[munooka]

Sorry I haven't had time to test the patch till now.

It certainly is the best yet, great work Ob1.
The buttons seem to be performing correctly mapped, movement works much better (although it still jumps every now and again) and I no longer get lock ups in touch mode. The pen worked out-of-the-compile, and I get full eraser, pen and touch functions which I have set up for eraser, paint/draw and select, respectively in gimp and inkscape ("Nice", said in a jazz voice).

A couple of minor irritations:
1) Double finger right click appears to be non-functional.
2) Two finger scroll is counter intuitive so when I move up the screen scrolls down and vice versa. Left and right on GIMP and INKscape work as expected but are a bit jerky.
3) Gestures in general seem a bit buggy. I will play around with the parameters in your post to see if its just my Ogre like fingers that are the problem .
4) Zoom gestures do not work on Inkscape or GIMP. Is this a bug or were they never supported?
5) Will swiping be supported at some point? I noticed that you can use a two finger swipe on windows for back and forward.

Hi all,

Here is a new combined bamboo p&t patch for linuxwacom-0.8.5-9. Hoping some people can test it and provide feedback.
Ob1

[texaswriter]

How would I go about testing a new "round" of patches. Would I have to completely uninstall drivers? I used the pre-patched drivers from post #1. Tia.

[munooka]

The drivers install over the top of the current files. I did this:

wget -N http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-dev/0.8.5-9/linuxwacom-0.8.5-9.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf linuxwacom-0.8.5-9.tar.bz2

downloaded ob1's patch from post 818 to the same directory as the linuxwacom-0.8.5-9.tar.bz2 file.

cp linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-bamboo-patch-set-v2.patch.doc ./linuxwacom-0.8.5-9/linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-bamboo-patch-set-v2.patch
cd linuxwacom-0.8.5-9
patch -p1 < linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-bamboo-patch-set-v2.patch

then compiled the code as normal

make clean
make distclean
./configure --enable-wacom --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo cp src/2.6.27/wacom.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe -r wacom
sudo modprobe wacom

How would I go about testing a new "round" of patches. Would I have to completely uninstall drivers? I used the pre-patched drivers from post #1. Tia.

[texaswriter]

The drivers install over the top of the current files. I did this:

K, thanks, I'll do that next day off of school & work and then post results/changes...

[palsehmi]

This thread is the development thread for the Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch series tablets (0xd1, 0xd2, 0xd3, and 0xd4 devices). We are trying to develop the patches to submit to the linuxwacom source. We currently have the pen portion working for the device and if you would like to try it out, please follow the instructions in post 541 from this thread. If you want to help in the testing of the device, please continue.

Just a little note of warning, this is not stable code. There are going to be times where the code might not work.

We are going to try a different approach on getting the driver installed. To make sure that you have all the development tools:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wacom-tools xserver-xorg-input-wacom
sudo apt-get install libhal-dev
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-wacom

Do the following if you are NOT using Karmic:

sudo apt-get purge wacom-tools xserver-xorg-input-wacom

If you are using Karmic also include the following:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git-repos/ubuntu/linux-2.6/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
sudo cp ./hid-ids.h /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

We are going to test out the 0.8.5-9 version based on ob1kenobi's submitted patch.
Option A
For now I have created a pre-patched source that you can download here.
Unpack the source:

tar -xvjf linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-prepatch.tar.bz2
cd linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-prepatch

Then jump to the compile and install section below.

Option B
You can retrieve this version from here. Attached at the bottom of this post is the current set of patches for the source.

Prepare the source for patching:

tar -xvjf patches-0.8.5-9.tar.bz2
cp patches-0.8.5-9/* linuxwacom-0.8.5-9
cd linuxwacom-0.8.5-9

Patch the source:

patch -p1 < linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-2.patch
patch -p1 < linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-spelling.patch

Compile and install:

make clean
make distclean
./configure --enable-wacom --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo cp src/2.6.27/wacom.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
sudo depmod -a

To reload the module:

sudo modprobe -r wacom
sudo modprobe wacom

NOTE: The 'make clean' and 'make distclean' will produce an error message if you have not done a ./configure before. This is because the source has never been compiled yet and the Makefiles have not been created yet (the Makefile gets built with the ./configure command). Therefore there is nothing to clean up.

Some helpful xsetwacom commands
To set your touch so that it works like a mouse touchpad:

xsetwacom set touch Mode Relative

To set the resolution of your touch (Example is for the medium sized tablet -- the small is X=480 Y=320):

xsetwacom set touch bottomx 740
xsetwacom set touch bottomy 500

To turn the touch on/off:

xsetwacom set touch Touch off
xsetwacom set touch Touch on

If there are any corrections that need to be made, please let me know.

Here is the link to the patches:
patches-0.8.5-9.tar.bz2
and for those who want to just build and go, here is the pre-patched source:
linuxwacom-0.8.5.9-prepatch

It looks like there are still some adjustments needed for the .fdi files. Please refer to this post.

Thank you, this worked for me without any issues. I am using a Bamboo Fun Medium Pen & Touch with Karmic 9.10 - release 18.

[Fabian Lamers]

Thanks for all the work and sharing.

I am using a Bamboo Fun Medium Pen & Touch and allmost everything is working for me.
Tapping too click doesn't work for me.
Isn't that supported yet or is there something that i can do about that?

[gunar]

great work!
for me the mini howto by Ayuthia worked great!

only point is that eraser doesn't work at all. which means that eraser input doesn't move the mouse. moreover eraser (and pad) doesn't appear in wacompl... (there is only touch and stylus)

is there any knowledge about this error?

thanks!