Getting the HP tx2000z to work

[ACLBandit]

if you install xserver-xorg-dev and reinstall with my instructions then the touch screen will act normally instead of click/drag. Not sure how to disable it yet.

Yeah, I did that now--it kinda makes some sense now. I still want to turn it off, though, so if anyone figures it out, let me know.

[xraytroubadour]

Hello,

First thanks to all the people on this thread for the info. Installing kubuntu on my new tx2000z was so easier. In fact, reading this thread convinced me of buying it in the first place.

So, I think I am at the same point as most of you: everything works almost perfect. One thing I was wondering: am I the only one who seem to suffer from this bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...96&atid=525127

On this bug tracker site, they seem to say that the problem is solved, but it definitely is not for me. Strokes in xournal look a bit blocky, and typing "xidump TabletPCStylus" shows coordinates only at the resolution of the screen.

Now, what is really weird is that I am pretty sure I didn't have this problem a few days ago. It seems to have started exactly when I recompiled the wacom driver with the xserver-xorg-dev package installed, since I also had this click-jump issue with the touchscreen. Un-installing xserver-xorg-dev and recompiling didn't revert to the previous situation though.

Thanks for any input on that issue!

Oh, and by the way, I could disable the touchscreen just by putting the Sendcoreevents option to "false" in my xorg.conf...

[tempo500]

hi,
i am running the nvidia drivers... thanks for your help

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

[M42]

On this bug tracker site, they seem to say that the problem is solved, but it definitely is not for me. Strokes in xournal look a bit blocky, and typing "xidump TabletPCStylus" shows coordinates only at the resolution of the screen.

Oh, and by the way, I could disable the touchscreen just by putting the Sendcoreevents option to "false" in my xorg.conf...

Hello xraytroubadour,
I'm getting the coordinates for x > 25k and y > 15k based on the output from xidump TabletPCStylus but I can see some blocking in xjournal if I look closely using the fine pen. Wish I could be more help.

Which SendCoreEvents did you turn off in xorg.conf to turn off the touchscreen?

[xraytroubadour]

Hello xraytroubadour,
I'm getting the coordinates for x > 25k and y > 15k based on the output from xidump TabletPCStylus but I can see some blocking in xjournal if I look closely using the fine pen. Wish I could be more help.

Which SendCoreEvents did you turn off in xorg.conf to turn off the touchscreen?

Yeah, something is not normal with my setup - I may very well have tweaked too many things - especially in the xorg.conf.

The "SendCoreEvent" option I set to false is the one for TabletPCStlyus2. I must warn you that it may not be the solution because the touchscreen randomly started to work again in some occasions. I need to check how this is correlated to suspending to ram. I am so happy I can suspend my laptop (I never was able to do it on the one I had before) that I may be overdoing it a little...

Oh, and just in case someone is interested, I wrote a small script to rotate the screen, that I placed in my ~/bin:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z `xrandr | grep -o "800x1280"` ]; then
   # Landscape mode - change to portrait
   xrandr -o right
   xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CW
   xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus2" Rotate CW
   xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus3" Rotate CW
else
   # Portrait mode - change to landscape
   xrandr -o normal
   xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate NONE
   xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus2" Rotate NONE
   xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus3" Rotate NONE
fi

(some may prefer CCW and left instead of CW and right. I am left-handed and the pen string is in the way when I rotate it the other way)

I then configured KDE to execute the script when I hit the button with the little arrow going in a circle on the bottom right corner of the screen (I don't know what it is supposed to mean).

[xraytroubadour]

Hello again,

Ok, I barely understand what I just did, but for now my low-resolution problem seems to be solved. Even though I may be the only one having the problem, I'll document it here now (I hate seing threads that finish with "Hey I found the solution", and then nothing).

Doing a diff on the config.log in the linuxwacom-0.7.9.11 directory for the cases with and without xserver-xorg-dev showed a "quirk" called "tablet-rescale". In the file config.status (that was generated with "./configure --enable-wacom" and xserver-xorg-dev installed), I looked for the lines that contained TABLET_SCALING. There were two of those, and I just discarded them. Then followed the usual compilation. I guess me believing that removing xserver-xorg-dev did not solve the problem was just caused by forgetting to "make clean"... I still wanted to have xserver-xorg-dev installed since it solved the jump/click issue.

Anyway, as I said I have no clue what this all mean. I'll also stop here since I am probably mostly talking to myself. (I wonder why nobody else got this issue, though...)

[correaa]

Regarding the issue of disabling the touchscreen (while keeping stylus).

I don't know exactly what the options in xorg.conf do, but the following lines disables the touchscreen. I guess the key part is the last section but I don't know way. Maybe this gives a clue to someone else on activating the eraser tip for certain programs (e.g. gimp or xournal). If you have any improvement please pots it:

disabled touchscreen:
---------------------

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
Option "Button2" "3" # make side-switch a right button
# Option "TopX" "225"
# Option "TopY" "122"
# Option "BottomX" "26365"
# Option "BottomY" "16488"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus2"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus3"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Button1" "1" #this line is important
Option "Button2" "1" #this line is important
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "touch"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-mouse"
Option "Type" "touch"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
# Option "TopX" "225"
# Option "TopY" "122"
# Option "BottomX" "26365"
# Option "BottomY" "16488"
EndSection

[lordoflima]

This is my quickly typed bash script for rotating the screen. Just put it into any file, set chmod +x and set a k-menu-entry with the rotation-icon (next to DVD) as hotkey. Works fine, but I'd liked the other button more, for consistency.

#!/bin/bash

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "right" ]; then
        rm /tmp/screen_rotation
        XRAND="normal"
        SETWACOM="NONE"
        ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "inverted" ] && [ "$ROTATED" != "1" ]; then
        echo "right" > /tmp/screen_rotation
        XRAND="right"
        SETWACOM="CW"
        ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "left" ] && [ "$ROTATED" != "1" ]; then
        echo "inverted" > /tmp/screen_rotation
        XRAND="inverted"
        SETWACOM="HALF"
        ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "" ] && [ "$ROTATED" != "1" ]; then
        echo "left" > /tmp/screen_rotation
        XRAND="left"
        SETWACOM="CCW"
        ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "$ROTATED" = "1" ]; then
        xrandr -o $XRAND
        xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate $SETWACOM
        xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus2" Rotate $SETWACOM
        xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus3" Rotate $SETWACOM
fi;

Does anybody got the standby working?

[ACLBandit]

Correa, no go-- the .conf doesn't kill m touch5creen

However, Lordoflima, your script is my new Best Friend.

[correaa]

it worked for a while for me, and then the stupid uncalibrated touchscreen came back. Sorry.

Correa, no go-- the .conf doesn't kill m touch5creen

However, Lordoflima, your script is my new Best Friend.