HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

[Favux]

Hi s3gfault,

if i adjust bottomx and bottomy, should i adjust topy and topx by the same amount? Do those values depend on each other at all?

No.

You should also be able to get the coordinates from xinput_calibrator. I believe the Deb works in Maverick.

[mrernia]

I've tried almost everything here, and googling, but nobody seems to have the same issue: dmesg and xinput list doesn't show anything wacom related. Tablet (bamboo p+t) works under windows, I've even tried to reinstall OS, and all that comes to my mind but still nothing. Any Ideas? thanks

 xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                  id=12    [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)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                                id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                                id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP Webcam                                   id=10    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=11    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP WMI hotkeys                              id=13    [slave  keyboard (3)]

[Favux]

Hi mrernia,

Let's see if your wacom.ko is auto-loading. Enter in a terminal:

lsmod | grep wacom

[mrernia]

Hi mrernia,

Let's see if your wacom.ko is auto-loading. Enter in a terminal:

lsmod | grep wacom

Wow! thanks for the super fast reply!!
btw, is not listed: lsmod|grep wacom gives empty string. But after running
sudo modprobe wacom

lsmod|grep wacom
wacom                  33261  0

but that's all. Trying connect/disconnect etc doesnt change anything. device doesn't appears in dmesg, only "connected" blah blah. But nothing more.

[  201.366384] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[  201.366386] wacom: v1.52-pc-0.3:USB Wacom tablet driver
[  222.390183] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
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[Favux]

What you want to see is if the wacom.ko survives a reboot, i.e. is it auto-loading.

Given the size I suspect you are looking at the default wacom.ko that comes with Lucid or Maverick and doesn't work. Which are you in by the way?

So something went wrong with your linuxwacom compile or the copy command to get it in the kernel's modules directory.

[mrernia]

What you want to see is if the wacom.ko survives a reboot, i.e. is it auto-loading.

Given the size I suspect you are looking at the default wacom.ko that comes with Lucid or Maverick and doesn't work. Which are you in by the way?

So something went wrong with your linuxwacom compile or the copy command to get it in the kernel's modules directory.

maverick here, and is not surviving the reboot.
Looks like the copy command has no issues, I've just tried a cp -v.
The only thing I've from the compiling is a warning about xserver.
but there's this line that I can't understand due to my engrish:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ernia/Desktop/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src/2.6.30'
    Building linuxwacom drivers for 2.6 kernel.
***Note: Drivers not enabled as modules in your kernel config but requested through configure are NOT built

btw, I'll attach the output. Thanks Favux. Your help is really much appreciated.

[Favux]

To get it to auto-load add 'wacom' without the quotes to the bottom of the list in the modules file in /etc:

gksudo gedit /etc/modules

Your ./configure output looks good. In "BUILD OPTIONS:" it says it will make the wacom.ko:

wacom.o - yes

And tells you it will be in:
"Your wacom.ko is available under
/home/ernia/Desktop/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src/2.6.30"

Make isn't showing any errors, so you should be golden.:

sudo cp ./src/2.6.30/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko

and follow with:

sudo depmod -a

and reboot. Is the copy (cp) command returning an error(s)?

[mrernia]

no errors at all. and after reboot, the module is autoloaded but still don't works... Looks as is not able to recognize the device. but:

lsusb |grep Wacom
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 056a:00da Wacom Co., Ltd

device is here.. but xinput --list has no trace of it:

xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                  id=12    [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)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                                id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                                id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP Webcam                                   id=10    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=11    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP WMI hotkeys                              id=13    [slave  keyboard (3)]

I've tried to reboot with the tablet plugged and also plugging it afterwards, but still nothing. It's driving me crazy...

[Favux]

What is the model number of your Bamboo P & T?

Let's check the wacom.conf. What release of Ubuntu are you in? Lucid or Maverick?

[mrernia]

maverick here, model cth461/L, and here's the wacom.conf
tnx again