HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

[steffanllyn]

Excellent - thanks! I'll give that a go when I get home this evening...

[lautunno]

Hi,
I have a Thinkpad X60 with touch. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.
The pen works, but I can't access the screen using my finger.

xinput list provides:

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet stylus id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet eraser id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]


It seems it doesn't see the "Serial Wacom Tablet Touch", maybe because I've not a pad.
Trying to force it with xsetwacom didn't work (Serial Wacom Tablet Touch not found).
Should I add something in the xorg.conf.d directory?

Thanks!

[Favux]

Hi lautunno,

Welcome to Ubuntu forums!


Maybe a silly question, so sorry. Some X60t models were sold without single finger touch. Are you sure yours has touch?

[steffanllyn]

Excellent -it works fine now! Many thanks for all your help! (Or in the language of heaven: diolch yn fawr!)

[lautunno]

sorry for answering late.
Yes, it has a pen and it works.
Is there the option that despite having the pen it can't work with fingers?
thanks!

[Favux]

Is there the option that despite having the pen it can't work with fingers?

No if touch is there and things are working properly then touch should work along with the pen.

So if you have touch something isn't right.

You could make a script to toggle touch off if you wanted to. But that is not something available by default.

[potiphera]

I'm trying to get my CTH-470 working on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 with the generic and preempt kernels. I installed xorg-macros and followed the instructions to update it to 1.8, then I followed the instructions in part I, applying the patch in Appendix 2 before configuring. But after the part where I restart (into the same kernel -- preempt -- that I was using before the reboot), the "lsmod | grep wacom" command returns nothing. How can I figure out what I'm doing wrong? The only unusual thing I noticed was that one of the hunks failed when patching.

[Favux]

Hi potiphera,

For the headers command when compiling input-wacom's wacom.ko what did you use?

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-preempt

[potiphera]

Yeah, that's what I used. I also entered the same command for generic in case I have to get the tablet working on the generic kernel later.

[Favux]

Add wacom to the bottom of the list in modules and restart.

gksudo gedit /etc/modules

I'm concerned about the hunk that failed. What's in it? Also they've added the patch into input-wacom. So you could clone the input-wacom git repository and compile that without using the patch. See appendix 1.

By the way did you mean linux-headers-lowlatency?