multitouch on thinkpad x201?

[luisito]

I have a Thinkpad x201. I thought that after Maverick 10.10 we would have multitouch support out of the box or quasi. I have just updated from 10.04 to 10.10 and everything works exactly the same. More precisely, the stylus, touchscreen and touchpad work, but without multitouch.

I installed utouch. I did some tests with gesturetest and I get nothing.

This is what I get when I run lsinput

/dev/input/event0
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x5
   version : 0
   name    : "Lid Switch"
   phys    : "PNP0C0D/button/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_SW

/dev/input/event1
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x3
   version : 0
   name    : "Sleep Button"
   phys    : "PNP0C0E/button/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event2
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x1
   version : 0
   name    : "Power Button"
   phys    : "LNXPWRBN/button/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event3
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor  : 0x1
   product : 0x1
   version : 43860
   name    : "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
   phys    : "isa0060/serio0/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP

/dev/input/event4
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x17aa
   product : 0x5054
   version : 16641
   name    : "ThinkPad Extra Buttons"
   phys    : "thinkpad_acpi/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_SW

/dev/input/event5
   bustype : BUS_USB
   vendor  : 0x17ef
   product : 0x4816
   version : 9029
   name    : "Integrated Camera"
   phys    : "usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.6/button"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event6
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor  : 0x2
   product : 0x7
   version : 433
   name    : "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
   phys    : "isa0060/serio1/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_ABS

/dev/input/event7
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x6
   version : 0
   name    : "Video Bus"
   phys    : "LNXVIDEO/video/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event8
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor  : 0x2
   product : 0xa
   version : 0
   name    : "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
   phys    : "synaptics-pt/serio0/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_REL

This is what I get from xinput list

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet stylus              	id=15	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet eraser              	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet touch               	id=14	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint                   	id=16	[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)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Integrated Camera                       	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons                  	id=12	[slave  keyboard (3)]

And this is what I get from xinput list-props "Serial Wacom Tablet touch"

Device 'Serial Wacom Tablet touch':
	Device Enabled (125):	1
	Coordinate Transformation Matrix (127):	1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
	Device Accel Profile (243):	0
	Device Accel Constant Deceleration (244):	1.000000
	Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (245):	1.000000
	Device Accel Velocity Scaling (246):	10.000000
	Wacom Tablet Area (293):	0, 0, 2631, 1652
	Wacom Rotation (294):	0
	Wacom Serial IDs (296):	227, 0, 3, 0
	Wacom TwinView Resolution (297):	0, 0, 0, 0
	Wacom Display Options (298):	-1, 0, 1
	Wacom Screen Area (299):	0, 0, 1280, 800
	Wacom Proximity Threshold (300):	0
	Wacom Capacity (301):	-1
	Wacom Pressure Threshold (302):	27
	Wacom Sample and Suppress (303):	2, 4
	Wacom Enable Touch (304):	1
	Wacom Hover Click (305):	0
	Wacom Enable Touch Gesture (306):	1
	Wacom Touch Gesture Parameters (307):	50, 20, 250
	Wacom Tool Type (308):	"TOUCH" (310)
	Wacom Button Actions (309):	"None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0)

Any idea if multitouch gestures on the screen can be activated or not?

[Favux]

Hi luisito,

I think the multitouch code is available in Maverick but not really active, except in an experimental way. I believe it will be active in Natty.

If your X200t supports 2 finger touch (2FG) you can get 2 finger touch/gestures through the wacom driver xf86-input-wacom. You may need to turn it on with a line in the 50-wacom.conf or using an xsetwacom command.

But remember, your wacom digitizer if it supports multitouch, only supports two fingers.

[luisito]

I don't think there is anything I did. I don't know if it was some update or what. But multi-touch is working on my Thinkpad X201 with Ubuntu 10.10 now.

[irwand]

I've been trying to get multi-touch working on x201. I've aptitude upgrade today, but mtdev-tools nor "gesturetest 0 0 0xffffffff" give me anything.

How do you test the multi-touch on x201? Nothing in lsinput mention anything about wacom touch. I'm confused.

[Favux]

Hi irwand,

It depends on what release of Ubuntu you are in. The default xf86-input-wacom in Lucid, 0.10.5, doesn't support gestures. You need to install a newer one. The 0.10.8 in Maverick does.

xsetwacom set "Device name" Touch "on"
xsetwacom set "Device name" Gesture "on"

Where "Device name" is from 'xinput --list'. Something like "Wacom serial tablet touch".

[irwand]

Thanks Favux,

I verified that both are on. I'm running 10.10 Maverick.

$ xsetwacom --get "Serial Wacom Tablet touch" touch
on
$ xsetwacom --get "Serial Wacom Tablet touch" gesture
on

What application supports multitouch right now to try it out?
Thanks man!

[luisito]

Gestures might be enabled already. You can try the zoom and scroll on the web browser, but the right click is the easiest to perform.

Put one finger on the screen first and the second later without releasing the first finger. The right click should be performed (usually giving you a popup menu) where your first finger is.

[irwand]

To my surprise when I used 2 fingers to zoom in/out in Firefox, it somewhat works.. albeit kinda klunky, since it has a long delay before Firefox does it. Oh well. I guess it works. Thanks guys!

[noah++]

Same Ubuntu, same Thinkpad model,

noahplusplus@x201:~$ xsetwa*** --get "Serial Wa*** Tablet touch" gesture
on
noahplusplus@x201:~$ xsetwa*** --get "Serial Wa*** Tablet touch" touch
on

but no multitouch function I can perceive. Touching the screen in Firefox just highlights some text near my finger, which refuses to be unhighlighted except by another touch (i.e. not by mouse). Can't scroll, can't zoom. Any idea what I'm missing?

(And, apropos of nothing, is every instance of c-o-m appearing as "***" for everyone else in this forum right now, too?)

[Favux]

Hi noah++,

Yep, everyone is seeing c o m replaced with ***.

I just added a new xsetwacom script to the Bamboo P&T HOW TO on post #2 for X200t/X201t's. I don't think the commands you are using are quite right. You might want to check it out.

Hopefully I'll have some new stuff to add to the HOW TO in a few days if I get a chance to do some testing.