Wonderful! Thank you Lekensteyn!
Wonderful! Thank you Lekensteyn!
I am having trouble with the Threshold setting for my Bamboo Fun tablet in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. The tablet works out of the box, but the threshold setting is very low and I don't seem to be able to affect it. I have installed the driver update described at the beginning of this thread.
Here is the result of the lsmod check:
ryan@hpdv4|12:24 PM|scripts$ lsmod | grep wacom
wacom 46849 0
I can use xsetwacom to set the threshold and it seems to be recognized:
ryan@hpdv4|12:22 PM|scripts$ xsetwacom --set "Wacom BambooFun 6x8 stylus" Threshold "500"
ryan@hpdv4|12:23 PM|scripts$ xsetwacom --get "Wacom BambooFun 6x8 stylus" Threshold
500
But when I go into gimp and lightly drag the stylus across the pad, it is still drawing a line.
The Wacom settings from the Unity dashboard don't seem to have any affect either.
I really need a higher threshold for better hand writing when I use this for my digital blackboard in my class.
Thanks,
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
From what you say it looks like the issue may be with Gimp. Can you confirm in Edit > Preferences > Input Devices in Configure Extended Input Devices you have the stylus set to Screen Mode and Pressure is on Axes 3?
Do you have the Unity/Gnome Precise or say KDE Precise etc.
Edit: Also just to be sure. You are running the xsetwacom Threshold command before starting Gimp, correct?
Last edited by Favux; June 1st, 2012 at 01:32 AM.
> Can you confirm in Edit > Preferences > Input Devices in Configure
> Extended Input Devices you have the stylus set to Screen Mode and
> Pressure is on Axes 3?
The Mode was disabled. Setting it to Screen seems to have fixed my problem. I will play around a bit to make sure, but I now see a line in GIMP whose opacity varies with my pressure, which is how my brush is set up. If GIMP had defaulted to Screen, it might have all worked out of the box....
Yes, I am running Unity/Precise (still not sure how I feel about it, but it looks pretty).
Thanks!
Ryan
Good. Glad your set up for the class room.
Yes it is pretty. I think I'm used to it now. I tweaked it to let me set up launchers again and I stuck Cairo Dock on the right side opposite the launcher (instead of on the bottom) and things feel pretty much back to normal. Everything seems back in "place".
Heck maybe a improvement. Not quite sure about that yet.
So, setting the mode to screen in GIMP makes pressure work and I can adjust it using the unity wacom settings applet, but my xsetwacom.sh doesn't seeem to have any effect. I am glad to have some pressure sensitivity, but would prefer the finer control of xsetwacom. Is there any way to get that working again (in Unity/Precise)?
Ryan
Favux,
I've been reading your postings on this forum & the Linux Mint forum.
I've got a couple of questions about trying to get my Bamboo Capture
working on Linux Mint 201204 (LMDE).
My Wacom Bamboo Capture displays 056a:00de from lsusb.
Your posting on this forum states that it is a Generation 3 Tablet.
I am running LMDE with Kernel 3.2.0-2-486. My first question is if I download and compile input-wacom-0.13.0.tar.gz, will it generate a new wacom.ko module for my 3.2.0 kernel that will allow my Third Generation Bamboo Capture to work properly? I know it will for the 2.x Kernels, and a previous post states that it will also work for 3.0 Kernels. But, will it support my latest kernel on LMDE?Third Generation models (released October 2011):
Bamboo Capture (Pen & Touch) stylus; touch, pad
(CTH470; Product ID = 0xde)
* These new models are not yet in the usb kernel driver wacom.ko. Chris Bagwell has
kindly updated input-wacom to 0.12.0 with third generation Bamboo support. This is a
backport of his 3.3 kernel code for the 2.6.38 and 3.0 kernels. See part I.
Support is only available for Natty (11.04) & Oneiric (11.10) as mt.h is required.
* For support in Lucid and Maverick see appendix 2
*All styli have two buttons (rocker switch).
The references at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Downloads state that Kernels above 3.0 should be downloaded from the Distribution, and that xf86-input-wacom should be used versus input-wacom.
I also have X.Org X Server 1.11.4 on LMDE. Do I also need to compile xf86-input-wacom-0.15.0.tar.gz (the latest) to get my Bamboo Create functional?
I've poured over the postings and studied what to do, but I am at a loss as to what is correct.
I guess the easiest thing to do is wait for Kernel 3.3 to be released....as nothing on the LMDE Forum exactly duplicates what I am wanting to do since my Kernel is almost the latest release versus being a 2.x version.
Thanks.
Larry
Last edited by lkraemer; June 8th, 2012 at 02:46 PM.
Hi Larry (lkraemer),
Yeah I didn't use the best wording there on the input-wacom page did I? What I'm saying is for 2.6.37 and higher use the Distro's kernels if they work for your tablet because input-wacom changes don't necessarily get submitted upstream to the kernel. The flow is the other way, upstream kernel changes get backported to input-wacom. The original linuxwacom tarball had both the kernel and the X driver. So that is more a historical thing I'm talking about. We were worried that people would treat input-wacom like the kernel driver in linuxwacom and use it by habit instead of going with the kernel's wacom.ko like they should. Basically the message is if you want to come up with a kernel driver fix use the kernel not input-wacom. And input-wacom should only be used to provide backported support for newer tablets on older kernels. Which is your situation.
You should be good to go as far as I know with input-wacom-0.13.0 and the 3.2 kernel. Ping just backported Dmitry's next branch into input-wacom's 2.6.38 folder on 5-23-12. So that is probably at least support to and including the 3.5 kernel. They have been talking about a new input-wacom folder for newer kernels.
So if 0.13.0 doesn't work you can clone input-wacom instead.
Favux,
After reading, and re-reading your above Posting, I figured I had a handle on what needed to be done.
Here are my steps to get my Bamboo Capture CTH-470 working on Linux Mint 201204 - Debian Repo Version (LMDE) Kernel 3.2.0-2-486
Maybe it will save someone lots of time.
COPY & PASTE commands to prevent errors!
1. Plug in your USB Bamboo Tablet, and check what your Wacom Tablet is detected as with these commands:
Verify that the wacom module is loading on startup:Code:lsusb lsusb -v -d 056a:00de dmesg | grep wacom ls -l /dev/input/by-path
add wacom as the module to be loaded, then save the file...... Last line of the file is:Code:sudo nano /etc/modules
Check what the Tablet is detected as and check what version X.Org X Server is:Code:wacom
The possible choices for Wacom Tablets that you might have purchased are:Code:xsetwacom -v --list dev X -version
Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch models
First Generation models (released October 2009):
Bamboo Touch touch, pad
(CTT460; Product ID = 0xd0)
* Touch only model should also be able to use the Synaptic driver, see X. below.
Bamboo Pen & Touch stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH460; Product ID = 0xd1)
Bamboo Craft stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH461; Product ID = 0xd2)
Bamboo Fun stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH661; Product ID = 0xd3)
Bamboo Pen stylus
(CTL460; Product ID = 0xd4)
* Bamboo Pen pressure levels (0xd4): still broken in Oneiric. Use input-wacom.Second Generation models (released October 2010):
Bamboo Pen Medium stylus
(CTL660/K; Product ID = 0xd5) see appendix 2 below to clone input-wacom
Bamboo Pen & Touch stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH460/K; Product ID = 0xd6)
Bamboo Fun Small stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH461/S; Product ID = 0xd7)
Bamboo Comic Medium stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH661/S1; Product ID = 0xd8)
Bamboo P & T Special Edition Small stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH461/L; Product ID = 0xdA)
Bamboo P & T Special Edition Medium stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH661/L; Product ID = 0xdB)
* These models are using a new 4 FGT protocol and that is causing the pointer jumps
with Natty's 2.6.38 kernel and xf86-input-wacom. Fixed in input-wacom-0.12.1, see
part I. Full support is only available for Natty (11.04) & Oneiric (11.10) as mt.h
is required. For Lucid and Maverick see appendix 2.
* Two Special Editions (0xdA & 0xdB): see the note in X. below for 3 & 4 finger
gesture support.Third Generation models (released October 2011):
Bamboo Connect (Pen) stylus
(CTL470/K; Product ID = 0xdd)
Bamboo Capture (Pen & Touch) stylus; touch, pad
(CTH470; Product ID = 0xde)
Bamboo Create stylus, eraser; touch, pad
(CTH670; Product ID = 0xdf)
* These new models are not yet in the usb kernel driver wacom.ko. Chris Bagwell has
kindly updated input-wacom to 0.12.0 with third generation Bamboo support. This is a
backport of his 3.3 kernel code for the 2.6.38 and 3.0 kernels. See part I.
Support is only available for Natty (11.04) & Oneiric (11.10) as mt.h is required.
* For support in Lucid and Maverick see appendix 2
*All styli have two buttons (rocker switch).
To compile the wacom kernel module for LMDE kernel 3.2.0-2-486 do these steps:
REF: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Main_Page
The reason we have to compile the new wacom.ko is that the Generation 3 Wacom Tablets aren't supported
in the 3.2.x Kernel's until version 3.3, which hasn't been released yet....................
NOTE: The new compiled wacom.ko will be built and placed in a Folder named /path/to/extracted/folder/input-wacom-0.13.0/2.6.38
2. Determine the XOrg Server Version with X -version
REF: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Main_Page
XOrg Server-----------Download
1.7 - CURRENT--------xf86-input-wacom
1.4 - 1.6----------------linuxwacom
3. Get the needed Development Software for the compile, and remove the wacom module if it's loaded.
REF: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562Code:sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) sudo apt-get install libX11-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libudev-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxrandr-dev libncurses5-dev autoconf libtool sudo modprobe -r wacom
4. Download input-wacom-0.13.0.tar.gz
##Extract input-wacom-0.13.0 folder from the tar.gz or tar.bz2
NOTE: I had to change permissions to 755 for all the files in the input-wacom-0.13.0 subdirectory so I could get the compile working.Code:tar xjvf input-wacom-0.13.0.tar.bz2 cd input-wacom-0.13.0 sudo apt-get install build-essential libX11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxrandr-dev libncurses5-dev autoconf libtool
Restart the computer, then Plug in the Bamboo TabletCode:./configure --prefix=/usr sudo cp ./2.6.38/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko sudo depmod -a
After rebooting if the Bamboo Tablet is not working check if the wacom.ko is auto-loading with lsmod.
You should see 'wacom' along with it's size.Code:lsmod | grep wacom
If this doesn't work I'll need to clone the git repository.
Appendix 1: HOW TO Clone the input-wacom git repository
REF: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562
5. Download the latest version from Sourceforge.net of xf86-input-wacom-0.15.0.tar.gz
REF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxwacom/files/
6. Compile the Software:
NOTE: I had to change permissions to 755 for all the files in the xf86-input-wacom-0.15.0 subdirectory so
I could get the compile working. I skipped the extraction step as it's just a repeat of the above......
logout, then loginCode:cd /Downloads/Wacom_Driver/xf86-input-wacom-0.15.0/ REF: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...86-input-wacom ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib # on 32-bit install ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 # on 64 bit install make # I needed to remove a previous version I was playing with.....: #sudo make uninstall sudo make install
configure x as needed.....................
REF: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...=Configuring_X
7. VERIFY what your Wacom Tablet is detected as with these commands:
Reference the attached Photo's...........Code:lsusb lsusb -d 056a:00de dmesg | grep wacom ls -l /dev/input/by-path cat /etc/modules xsetwacom -v --list dev
Now configure your Linux Software (and WinXP Software running in Wine) to work with the Bamboo Capture Tablet.
Linux Software that should work with Wacom Tablets:
1. Cellwriter
2. Gimp
3. Inkscape
4. Xournal
5. jarnal
6. jscribble
7. mypaint
8. MSPaint (WinXP Ver 5.1 running in Wine 1.5.0)
I'm runnng MSPaint (Win 5.1 Version) in Wine 1.5.0 and the Tablet works.
NOTE: the Ubuntu Forum has a Guide/Tutorial how I got MSPaint Ver 5.1 working in Wine.
REF: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...mspaint&page=3
Posting #30
The Bamboo Capture also works in Gimp, and Inkscape, after setting up the input device as per your Posting at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom
GOOD REF's: -- GOOGLE is your FRIEND!!
http://www.gimptalk.com/index.php?/t...ets-with-gimp/
http://griatch-art.deviantart.com/jo...ials-237116359
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...l_applications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom
http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=51345959
http://r3dux.org/2012/03/how-to-inst...-wine-in-lmde/
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...by%20Developer
Thanks for your support and a HUGE THANKS go to ALL the Software Guru's.
Larry
Last edited by lkraemer; June 9th, 2012 at 02:24 PM.
I'm having problems with the first part of the set up for a CTL-470/K under Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit)
I've run the following commands...
cd Desktop
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/l...0.13.0.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxrandr-dev libncurses5-dev autoconf libtool
sudo apt-get upgrade
uname -r
tar xjvf input-wacom-0.13.0.tar.bz2
cd input-wacom-0.13.0
./configure --prefix=/usr
sudo cp ./2.6.38/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
sudo depmod -a (then restarted)
lsmod | grep wacom (which returned nothing at all)
I saw no error messages from running any of the above commands. Have I missed something - or should I plough on regardless?
By the way, the lsusb command gives...
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a40:0201 TERMINUS TECHNOLOGY INC.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 152d:2329 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JM20329 SATA Bridge
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 059b:0277 Iomega Corp.
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:09a4 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam E 3500
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04a9:1714 Canon, Inc. MP160
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1a40:0101 TERMINUS TECHNOLOGY INC. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button)
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 056a:00dd Wacom Co., Ltd
Last edited by steffanllyn; June 10th, 2012 at 10:17 PM. Reason: additional info provided
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