HOWTO: Setup a wizardpen-based tablet!

[daller]

This HOWTO should help you setting up your tablet!

Known vendors:

* Genius Wizardpen
* Genius Mousepen
* Genius
* iBall
* QWare
* UC-LOGIC

Known tablets: (that works with this howto)

* Tablet W4030U
* Tablet WP5540U (lsusb: UC-Logic Technology Corp. Genius MousePen 5x4 Tablet)
* Tablet WP8060U (Genius MousePen 8x6 Tablet) - Genius MousePen 8x6 Tablet
* Tablet PF1209 (lsusb: UC-Logic Technology Corp.) - Genius PenSketch 9x12"

See this howto:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TabletSetupWizardpen

...and if your tablet is not using the wizardpen-driver:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TabletSetup

[stepheny]

After typing xmkmf I get the following errors.

-desktop:~/Downloads/wizardpen-driver-0.5.0$ xmkmf
imake -DUseInstalled -I/etc/X11/config/cf
<stdin>:1:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
<stdin>:2:19: error: ctype.h: No such file or directory
<stdin>: In function ‘main’:
<stdin>:18: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
<stdin>:18: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
<stdin>:18: error: for each function it appears in.)
<stdin>:45: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘sscanf’
<stdin>:49: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’
/usr/bin/xmkmf: line 57: 10980 Aborted imake $imake_defines $args

Do you have any idea what is wrong?

[daller]

Your problem is probably that you don't have libc6-dev and gcc installed.

The howto is NEW - Please reply with ANY problems whatsoever!

BTW: What model is the tablet? (run lsusb from console)

[stepheny]

I found out what was wrong with xmkmf. The packet "build-essential" needed to be installed.

[daller]

If it's not a secret, I'm still interested in the tablet's make and model!

Did it all work as it should?

BTW: Build-essential is not a real package! - I simply depends on some other packages!

If you have one of the tablets that is already on the list, I'm also interested in how much you paid for it!

[ashyanbhog]

Hi, I followed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TabletSetupWizardpen guide to configure my new iBall tablet that identifies itself as WP8060,

The guide worked and the pen is detected and works to an extent,

However, the default setup considers the pen-tip contact with the board as left click and hence tries to window-pick objects on desktop. This is easily rectified in Windows with the vendor provided software that allows button action cutomization.

Is it possible to change the button-actions setup in Linux someplace. In the present state the tablet is pretty much unusable as it draws continuosly in Gimp when the pen is moved across the tablet

[ashyanbhog]

ok, I think I found the way to confiure buttons,

$ sudo apt-get xinput
(if its not installed already)

$ xinput set-button-map "WizardPen Tablet" 0 1 2 3 4

my tablet is supposed to have 5 buttons, hence the five numbers, can also include no 5 and be in any order ur comfortable with.

[daller]

Originally Posted by ashyanbhog $ xinput set-button-map "WizardPen Tablet" 0 1 2 3 4 .

The command seems to have an effect on my pen.

(Now I CAN'T use it properly )

How do you manage the buttons after running this command?

[ashyanbhog]

$ xinput list

will give some details of your input devices, including the number of buttons on your pen

you can change the order of buttons and that'll rotate the function between buttons,

for example in my tablet, the pen tip contact with tablet is configured as left click by default, and this make the pen almost unusable, at least for me. I need to explicitly set it to 0 (no action)

on my pen, the number vs fuction is something like

0 : No action (only movement)
1 : Left button click
2 : Middle Button Click
3 : Right Button click
4 : Scroll up (one click equals one step of scroll wheel in my logitech mouse)
5 : Scroll down

I am yet to find time to see what other numbers do, but if you want help documenting them, I can check them out.

you need to assign some function for all the buttons one ur device, else xinput exits with some error,

The s/w provided on the driver CD for Windows allows one to see the function assigned to each button and choose a diff function from a drop down menu. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a similar software available for Linux.

If u have been comfortable with the ur setup so far, ur device comes with a saner set of defaults than my cheeeeeep (but good) tablet.

maybe u can update the tutorial to indicate this option to users who may want to change their default button functions.

I have included the xinput command to my rc.local,

XORG_CONF=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
if [ -e /dev/tablet-event ]; then
sed -ie 's/^\(\s*\)\#\(\s*InputDevice\s\s*\"WizardPen\ Tablet\"\s\s*\"AlwaysCore\"\)\s*$/\1\2/' "$XORG_CONF"
echo "Udev created /dev/tablet-event, which means that the tablet is present! - Tablet-driver enabled"
xinput set-button-map "WizardPen Tablet" 0 1 3 4 5
else
sed -ie 's/\(^\s*InputDevice\s\s*\"WizardPen\ Tablet\"\s\s*\"AlwaysCore\"\)\s*$/\#&/' "$XORG_CONF"
echo "Udev did NOT create /dev/tablet-event, which means that the tablet is NOT present! - Tablet-driver disabled"
fi

exit 0

[daller]

Hmm...

Afaict, the setup is only temporary?

I think i'll add a section to the guide about this issue.

Wouldn't it be correct to place the xinput command in the rc.local file? (along with detecting the tablet) - So that the command is run on every startup

EDIT: I just finished reading your post! - It seems that we are thinking the same about the rc.local file... NICE!

It'll pe a part of the guide very soon!