HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

[dr4ziw]

Favux, could you elaborate a bit more on this?
When you say that you want to put touch on the synaptic driver, you mean instead of the wacom driver? So, the touch part of the Bamboo would function like a regular notebook (multitouch) touchpad.
I'd really like that!

Which kernel would be required? The new 2.6.37 (because of the MT code) or also older kernels, like my 2.6.32 (Lucid).

[Favux]

Hi dr4ziw,

Exactly. See the stuff in part VIII. Right now I can't do it. Since the N-trig works with stylus on the wacom driver and touch on the evdev driver we should be able to do it. And while it may be the Synaptics driver in Natty we want I was thinking the special editions (with 3 & 4 fingers) could use evdev now in Maverick along with ginn. See these videos of a N-trig with multi-touch using evdev and ginn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44QSLk-FgPg & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH6kxNRYz20 He used my N-trig HOW TO and modified the ginn scripts some.

I'd think the 2.6.35 kernel would be good enough, but maybe not. The hid-ntrig.ko is more multi-touch/MT code compliant than the wacom.ko's for 2.6.35 apparently.

[rustikus]

Hi Favux,

thanks for the hint. I will try to compile the new xorg input driver.

Attached you will find the log I created this morning. Do you need anything else?


UPDATE: With the new xf86-input-wacom everything is working. I also attached the new Xorg log. Thanks a lot!

[dr4ziw]

Hi, Favux.

Those videos look... to be honest, I don't like the idea of controlling a computer with touchscreen. Call me old fashioned, but if anybody were to touch my monitor he'd need an arm prothesis. *kidding*

However, having read part VIII -- especially, that Gianpaolo was able to use the default kernel in Sid (2.6.32) -- I thought that this might work for my Ubuntu Lucid as well. So I gave it a shot.
Bad news first, touch doesn't work -- not that big a surprise.
Good news, the synaptics driver does, in fact, gets hold of the touch part of my P&T (0xd3) -- see attached Xorg.0.log -- and is responding to the top two pad buttons with which I can scroll in gedit, firefox, etc.

Any chance that this would be something to figure out easily? Looking at the dependencies for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-1.2.2-2 for Maverick, it doesn't seem very likely that upgrading only xf86-input-synaptics would be enough. As you can see in the log, I already compiled synaptics 1.2.2-2 from source. Before going any higher, I'd like to know if this is neccessary, at all, or if I need to upgrade any other package(s) -- and if so, which ones, preferrably without breaking my system.

Cheers,
- dr4ziw -

[dr4ziw]

... furthermore, synclient does report that it's receiving position data (x,y) from the tablet. Pressure (z) stays at zero, while # of fingers (f) is usually "2" when I touch the tablet, and "0" when I don't -- sometime's "3" when I'm drumming rapidly with all my fingers.

[EDIT]
I (index finger),
II (middle finger),
III (ring finger),
"+" means hold,
"-" means lift finger:

When I do
I + II + III - I - II, so that I'm holding down only one finger at the end, now the "3" gets reported from synclient.

[EDIT2]
I any case, the distance between the fingers (w) also stays at zero.

Don't know if that helps...

[dr4ziw]

Update:
Played around a bit...
Although, I can't get the pointer to follow touch, can't get pressure or finger width information to the synclient, I meanwhile know what the four pad buttons are doing:
[1] Scroll Up
[2] Scroll Down
[3] Scroll Left
[4] Scroll Right

Reminds me of my old Acre Aspire 1350 notebook, which has a round four-way button located between left and right mouse button which is supposed to work just like that.

Looking at Xorg.0.log -- excerpt, see attachment --, I noticed those lines, saying:

(II) config/udev: Adding input device Wacom BambooFun 2FG 6x8 Finger (/dev/input/mouse3)
(II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)

Gave me the idea that loading a driver for "/dev/input/mouse*" might help.
Unfortunately, every driver -- that is, synaptics, evdev and wacom -- resulted in an error message, and that the module for this mouse device gets unloaded.
Bummer.

Then just for fun I loaded the evdev driver instead of synaptics inside 60-bambooPT.conf from posting #1.
Pointer is following touch -- from my subjective point of view, a tad better than with the wacom driver -- and the pad buttons are working. Kind of... [1] gives a left click, [3] a right one. Couldn't figure out the other two. And didn't want to either, since evdev doesn't recognize taps -- neiter 1FG nor 2FG.

I thought this might be of interest.

Cheers,
- dr4ziw -

P.S. I meanwhile upgraded to the latest (stable?) xf86-input-synaptics 1.3.0. Doesn't help, except that "synclient" now produces a list of the touchpad properties, which IMO is not that bad. So doesn't hurt to keep that version.

[Favux]

Thanks dr4ziw,

I'll have to try to catch up with you. That's one of the things Chris recommended trying, updating the Synaptic touchpad driver. It's looking like the MT available to us in the wacom.ko's that work on the Maverick kernel don't cut the mustard. Haven't caught up to the hid-ntrig.ko in MT implementation. I did get the touch on the evdev driver in Lucid. Single finger touch that freaked when second finger used and no click.

Have you tried using one of his snippets that blocks the wacom driver so you just have touch, no stylus and eraser, yet?

[dr4ziw]

Hi, Favux.
Didn't until now.

For the moment, I merely moved 10-wacom.conf out of /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d.

What happens is, evdev catches the tablet (pen) -- as it should, I suppose.
Synaptics (via 60-bambooPT.conf) gets hold of the touchpad, which, however, still is responding to the pad buttons (acting as scroll buttons) only. Synclient output didn't change.

At least we made sure that wacom.ko isn't interferring anywhere.

EDIT:
--- snip ---

[SOG420]

I have asked Favux for help but I was wondering if anyone else had any ideas instead of continuing to bother him directly. I make through step II and download .xsetwacom.sh and run it
I.I get Cannot find device 'Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus'.
Cannot find device 'Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus'.
Cannot find device 'Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus'.
Cannot find device 'Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch'.
Cannot find device 'Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch'.
Cannot find device 'Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch'.
Property 'Wacom Sample and Suppress' does not exist on device.
Property 'Wacom Pressure Threshold' does not exist on device.
Property 'Wacom Touch Gesture Parameters' does not exist on device.
Property 'Wacom Touch Gesture Parameters' does not exist on device.
Property 'Wacom Touch Gesture Parameters' does not exist on device.
II. lsmod | grep wacom results in this: wacom 29824 0
and lsusb results in this: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 056a:00d0 Wacom Co., Ltd
plus others
III. My xorg.conf file looks like this:
Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
Load "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
Option "XkbVariant" "mac"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY"
Driver "radeon"


Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "UseFBDev" "false"
Option "DynamicClocks" "true"

Option "DRI" "true"
Option "GARTSize" "64"

#Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
#Option "RenderMode" "XAA"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Color LCD"
Option "DPMS"
#HorizSync 58-62
#VertRefresh 75-117

# 1440x960 59.98 Hz (CVT) hsync: 59.74 kHz; pclk: 113.75 MHz
Modeline "1440x960_60.00" 113.75 1440 1528 1672 1904 960 963 973 996 -hsync +vsync

EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY"
Monitor "Color LCD"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x960_60.00"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"

InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "touch"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom-touch"
Option "Type" "touch"
Option "USB" "on"
# remove comment below if investigating this device
# Option "DebugLevel" "12" # gives info. for Xorg.0.log
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "pad"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom-touch"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
# remove comment below if investigating this device
# Option "DebugLevel" "12" # gives info. for Xorg.0.log
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
# Identifier "Default Layout"
# Screen "Default Screen"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
# Comment out unsupported devices
#InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
#InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
Inputdevice "touch" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "pad"
EndSection
hope this is enough info

[dr4ziw]

Hi, SOG420
Any reason why you're using xorg.conf, instead of 10-wacom.conf (via xorg.conf.d)? Makes life a little easier, xorg.conf a little lighter, and (most important) allows for hotplugging

Anyway, a few things come to mind:

1. In your xorg.conf you have two server layout sections. For better readability, you might want to merge those two.
2. Your tablet is reported as 0xd0 -- that is, just a touchpad, no pen, right?
3. The .xsetwacom.sh script you've downloaded surely contains entries for the pen (stylus and eraser). Since you don't have a pen, you'd want to remove the part for the pen (stylus and eraser). So, no more error messages coming from this side.
4. I guess you have to adjust the IDs for the two remaining touch devices (finger and pen) or enter their real name, since this doesn't change as often as IDs might. What's the output of "xinput --list"?

Cheers,
- dr4ziw -