Still can't get waltop/medion graphics tablet to work, can't build drivers in karmic

[notsamoth]

Hi, I had followed your steps and compiling went well. But if I plug in my tablet kde (or x-server) crashes to texdtmode with irregular switching to a black display. I own an ASUS-Notebook and uses Kubuntu 9.10 (x64) with kde 4.4.2

Any idea what's going wrong here ?

With the new version of driver posted on waltop:
http://www.waltop.com.tw/download.asp?lv=0&id=2
I successfully install the driver on Karmic:
Basic followed Favux's flow. I have learned a lot from Favux. thanks, man.

The problem I met during the complying:
"X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory", solved after installing libx11-dev
"X11/extensions/XInput.h: No such file or directory ubuntu", solved after installing libxi-dev
"‘O_RDONLY’ undeclared (first use in this function)", solved after adding header file "fcntl.h" on the top of xf86Wacom.c
Here are the detailed steps:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake xserver-xorg-dev x11proto-input-dev libx11-dev libxi-dev

sudo apt-get upgrade

unzip News420090811001_b.zip

cd WaltopTablet_091202/WaltopTablet/linuxwaltop-0.8.4/src/xdrv

gedit xf86Wacom.c (add one line at line 92 after all the including: #include "fcntl.h")

cd ../../

chmod +x configure

./configure

make

sudo make install

sudo cp ../drv/2.6.30.1/10-waltop.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/

sudo reboot

And it worked smoothly after the reboot, even better than on 9.04.
I am not sure if every step is necessary and I may missed some steps that I think totally useless.
I hope it work for you. Cheers.

[jianboli]

I am not sure, it is exactly what happened when I used the wrong driver. Have you removed the default wacom driver?

[notsamoth]

At last this works for me on 9.10:

- uninstalling all driver
- install the waltop-driver
- delete all fdi files concerning the tablet

And all is fine - until I've updated to 10.04 and I've got this freezed mousepointer when pushing the pen onto the tablet. The cursor moves only if first I move the pen 3 cm up in the air and down again.

[zdubun]

Dear All Above,

I have been trying to get my Adesso Cyberpad to work on Ubuntu. This looks exactly like Waltop Digital Note T01S pad. Ubuntu 10.04 seems to recognise the tablet however somethings need addressing:-
1. Every time the pen is used to click with pressure there is a delay of 5 secs before the pointer moves again.
2. I used Wine to use My Ink before. However Free Notes cannot be used. These are he bundled software that come with the cyberpad. Free note allows the user to directly write and store these notes.

Any solutions please.

And dear high ups of the Forums, I appreciate that these problems faced by us Ubuntu newbies seem trivial to you, but these are the things that make us go back to Windows, So please Solutions required.

[Zayfox]

At last this works for me on 9.10:

- uninstalling all driver
- install the waltop-driver
- delete all fdi files concerning the tablet

And all is fine - until I've updated to 10.04 and I've got this freezed mousepointer when pushing the pen onto the tablet. The cursor moves only if first I move the pen 3 cm up in the air and down again.

Bumping this topic because I have the same problem with 10.04, it's hindering work and school now.

[Zayfox]

Rebumping, I seriously need this fixed. If anyone has this working in 10.04, please give me the steps you took. This is seriously messing with my capabilities for work and school.

[sweena]

hi,
i've same problem. It seems like is a general trouble with tablets in last ubuntu, this issue happens also with wacom. But there is another problem with gimp: when i set the tablet device in preferences, gimp crashes with this message:

(gimp:6893): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_remove: assertion `GTK_IS_TOOLBAR (container) || widget->parent == GTK_WIDGET (container)' failed

(gimp:6893): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkHBox to a GtkFrame, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkFrame can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkHBox

(gimp:6893): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_box_pack: assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed

(script-fu:6896): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error
Segmentation fault (`core' generate)

so, it looks like a bug, doesn't it?

[Favux]

Hi sweena,

I've got this freezed mousepointer when pushing the pen onto the tablet. The cursor moves only if first I move the pen 3 cm up in the air and down again.

Bumping this topic because I have the same problem with 10.04, it's hindering work and school now.

i've same problem. It seems like is a general trouble with tablets in last ubuntu, this issue happens also with wacom. But there is another problem with gimp: when i set the tablet device in preferences, gimp crashes with this message:

Actually I'm kind of amazed that the Waltop driver is compiling in Lucid (10.4)/Xserver 1.7 because I don't believe it was updated for that. I wish you folks would describe what you are doing to get it to compile.

Anyway that is likely the source of your problems/errors. The LWP (Linux Wacom Project) developers have actually added support for the Waltop tablets back in to the Wacom X driver about 10 days ago with the merging of the Waltop branch with the xf86-input-wacom (the X driver) git master. Since it turns out the "Waltop" drivers are basically the linuxwacom drivers this is good. However the usb hid kernel part for Waltop tablets doesn't quite work yet, so the xf86-input-wacom doesn't quite get enough raw usb data to work. Apparently support patches fixing this have been submitted to the kernel.

In the meantime you can set up with the WizardPen drivers. See "Attention Waltop tablet in Lucid users" near the top in the linuxwacom HOW TO for links.

[sweena]

Hi sweena,

In the meantime you can set up with the WizardPen drivers. See "Attention Waltop tablet in Lucid users" near the top in the linuxwacom HOW TO for links.

It works perfectly!
thanks

[zax1]

worked perfectly for me - first time