Lucid/aiptek

[mystmaiden]

It's been ages since I used my tablet so I wanted to set it up again. Things have changed a lot since I did it the last time so I'm a bit fuzzy on the instructions and needing a little hand holding. From the Ubuntu help pages https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AiptekTablet I found -

at startup, udev by default will identify our tablet as an evdev input device, so we must write an udev rule to tell xorg to load aiptek driver: in /lib/udev/rules.d add a file (e.g. 69-xserver-xorg-input-aiptek.rules) with something like this:


ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="xorg_aiptek_end"
KERNEL!="event[0-9]*", GOTO="xorg_aiptek_end"

ATTRS{idVendor}=="08ca", ENV{x11_driver}="aiptek", SYMLINK+="input/aiptektablet"

LABEL="xorg_aiptek_end"

There is another file to create as well. How exactly do I create them though? I already messed up once by thoughtlessly trying to configure it like I did on other versions of Ubuntu and as a result some of the applets I use on the tool bar disappeared or were broken ( I *think* I have all that fixed now.)


thanks in advance

mystmaiden

[mystmaiden]

Giving this a little bump. I should have said that what I need is the command line to create the needed file, I really didn't say it clearly

thanks in advance

[Favux]

Hi mystmaiden,

You have to be root (sudo) to create a system file. Since you'll want to use gedit, which is a gui based editor, you want to use gksudo, so:

gksudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/69-xserver-xorg-input-aiptek.rules
Just copy and paste the contents in and Save.

To be sure it is an Aiptek tablet look for the tablet line in the output of:

xinput list
or

lsusb

[mystmaiden]

Thanks so much, Favux.

Here is the output of xinput


Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation id=10 [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)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]


and lsusb

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


No mention of aiptek...

[Favux]

It is a usb tablet, correct? Was it plugged in? If not plug it in and rerun lsusb.

[mystmaiden]

Favux,

thanks again - plugged it in and all is well


mystmaiden@hal:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 08ca:0021 Aiptek International, Inc. APT-2 Tablet
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


It's working now, better than it used to.