HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

[hey40]

I am very new to this, and I can't quite understand this guide. Is there just a straight list of commands anywhere that I can use? (I use Lucid and have a Bamboo Create.) If there isn't, is there a simpler version of this anywhere?

[Favux]

Hi hey40,

It does seem intimidating when you are new. But actually the HOW TO consists of lists of commands you copy and paste into a terminal along with some explanation. If you skim through part I. and appendix 2 a couple of times I think you'll get the feel.

As an alternative the patch for third generation support has been committed to input-wacom now. So you could do appendix 1 i.e. clone the input-wacom git repository and compile it. Skipping the patch step in appendix 2. You'll still need to do the xorg macros 1.8 step in part I.

Hopefully there will soon be a 0.14.0 release tar of input-wacom which will simplify things a bit. And when that happens Lekensteyn will likely update his PPA, making it even easier.

[hey40]

Ok, I'll try that. Thank you!

[babygenius55]

Hello. my builds keep stopping because it says that I hae no kernel source. I'm using mint 12, and I downloaded every soucre I could find, and still a no go. I tried the first path, then I tried the appendix I method, and there is still no kernel source. What am I doing wrong?

I should add that I'm using the kde flavor.

[Favux]

Hi babygenius55,

Could you post the actual output that contains that error message?

[potiphera]

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.

Thanks, editing /etc/modules solved my problem. I can't remember what the failure message was, but I took your advice and cloned the git instead, and installing that way didn't give me any errors. I followed the rest of your guide, and then configured the input devices in Gimp and Inkscape, and now the tablet works great! Thanks so much for writing these instructions!

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

I seem to recall that there's a difference between preempt and lowlatency, but that it was esoteric enough that I forgot what it was immediately after I made my choice of kernel.

[Favux]

Thanks, editing /etc/modules solved my problem. I can't remember what the failure message was, but I took your advice and cloned the git instead, and installing that way didn't give me any errors. I followed the rest of your guide, and then configured the input devices in Gimp and Inkscape, and now the tablet works great! Thanks so much for writing these instructions!

Good! Glad you are set up.

Unfortunately they won't let us update HOW TO's anymore. So the HOW TO's usefulness will start decaying. Have to transfer them to the community wiki in order to be able to update them. I'm not real excited about being forced to do that.

I seem to recall that there's a difference between preempt and lowlatency, but that it was esoteric enough that I forgot what it was immediately after I made my choice of kernel.

Did not know that.

[drevicko]

Sorry for the long post, but I thought the info below may be useful..

I tried to install from git in Ubuntu 12.04, and it failed (my computer crashes if I plug in the tablet). I did `git pull` before starting. The top of the git log reads:

commit 9f32b03930802040ba1001258d824aefafd003d0
Merge: 1a8db01 7a87594
Author: Peter Hutterer <...>
Date: Fri Jul 13 16:17:39 2012 +1000

Merge branch 'release-script-fixes'


I didn't notice anything untoward when I did configured, made and installed, but perhaps I wasn't looking hard enough.. Attached is config.log gzipped. I did a grep on 'fatal' in config.log and found these lines:

configure:3326: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3337: $? = 4
configure:3326: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized option '-qversion'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

and these lines:

configure:4040: gcc -E conftest.c
conftest.c:11:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
--
configure:4329: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:54:26: fatal error: minix/config.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.


If I plug in the tablet, these lines appear in kern.log before the machine dies:

Aug 1 14:21:28 mycomputer kernel: [72723.464020] usb 8-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd
Aug 1 14:21:28 mycomputer kernel: [72724.067000] input: Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4x5 Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-1/8-1:1.0/input/i
nput8
Aug 1 14:21:28 mycomputer kernel: [72724.070958] input: Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4x5 Finger as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-1/8-1:1.1/inpu
t/input9
Aug 1 14:21:28 mycomputer kernel: [72724.071058] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
Aug 1 14:21:28 mycomputer kernel: [72724.071059] wacom: v1.53:USB Wacom tablet driver
Aug 1 14:21:32 mycomputer kernel: [72727.925557] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
Aug 1 14:21:33 mycomputer kernel: [72728.828211] init: lightdm main process (1252) terminated with status 1


The apt log for the dependent packages I'm supposed to install looks like this:

Commandline: apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libncurses5-dev xutils-dev autoconf libtool pkg-config libudev-dev
Install: libxrandr-dev:amd64 (1.3.2-2), x11proto-video-dev:amd64 (2.3.1-2, automatic), x11proto-xinerama-dev:amd64 (1.2.1-2, automatic), libncurses5-dev:amd64 (5.9-4), x11proto-render-dev:amd64 (0.11.1-2, automatic), libxi-dev:amd64 (1.6.0-0ubuntu2), m4:amd64 (1.4.16-2ubuntu1, automatic), autoconf:amd64 (2.68-1ubuntu2), libpixman-1-dev:amd64 (0.24.4-1, automatic), x11proto-randr-dev:amd64 (1.4.0+git20101207.0d32bb07-0ubuntu2, automatic), libxinerama-dev:amd64 (1.1.1-3build1), libtool:amd64 (2.4.2-1ubuntu1), libtinfo-dev:amd64 (5.9-4, automatic), libxkbfile-dev:amd64 (1.0.7-1ubuntu0.1, automatic), x11proto-xext-dev:amd64 (7.2.0-3, automatic), libudev-dev:amd64 (175-0ubuntu9.1), libxext-dev:amd64 (1.3.0-3build1, automatic), xserver-xorg-dev:amd64 (1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6), automake:amd64 (1.11.3-1ubuntu3, automatic), libxrender-dev:amd64 (0.9.6-2build1, automatic), autotools-dev:amd64 (20120210.1ubuntu1, automatic), libltdl-dev:amd64 (2.4.2-1ubuntu1, automatic), x11proto-dri2-dev:amd64 (2.6-2, automatic), x11proto-fonts-dev:amd64 (2.1.1-3, automatic), libpciaccess-dev:amd64 (0.12.902-1, automatic), xutils-dev:amd64 (7.7~1)

[Favux]

Hi drevicko,

Yep, a bunch of new warnings in ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr and especially with make. In make I see right away enough warnings to cause me to be hesitant about doing a make install.

Anyway it looks like it is OK if you go back one commit. So in the xf86-input-wacom folder run this command:

git checkout 1a8db01e89

Then proceed to:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr

etc.

To get back to master use:

git checkout master

I didn't do a sudo make install because I need 0.14.0 right now. But I think it'll be good. Fingers crossed.

[drevicko]

No go, I'm afraid. Here's a diff on config.log between the one I posted and the one produced after `git checkout 1a8db01e89`:

1131d1130
< config.status:1346: config.h is unchanged

ie: the logs are pretty much identical ):

Perhaps we'll have to go back a little further? Or perhaps my setup is obscurely incompatible??
Hmm.. Missing dependencies is perhaps more likely I guess ...

The head of my git log now reads:

commit 1a8db01e896514d06f7a69c647aac05832d54ea7
Author: Ping Cheng <...>
Date:   Thu Jul 12 17:23:00 2012 -0700

    Add Cintiq 22HD
    
    Signed-off-by: Ping Cheng <...>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <...>