HOWTO: Wacom in 8.04 Hardy

[ozbluenose]

Hello everyone.

I had some problems with my first attempt at this where I was copy-typing the codes from Neko18 manually. I only got to point 13 before encountering an error. This turned out to be a typographical error by me. By the time I discovered this and tried again, I had rebooted a couple of times and had also downloaded some automatic updates in ubuntu. For whatever reason, my subsequent attempt to finish off and then completely redo the code from Neko18 didn't work. I have since reinstalled ubuntu, as it was a new installation for me anyway, so not much loss, except for several days of my life. From a clean install, I have just re-entered Neko18's code by copying and pasting the text into Terminal to avoid my typo's and it has worked first time. My WACOM CTE-440 is working beautifully. So a big thanks to Neko18 for his/her time and work.

So to those that did encounter a problem and haven't been able to fix it, somehow either reverting to the previous state before entering any of Neko18's code or reinstalling ubuntu might be in order before trying again perhaps by copying and pasting to avoid any mistakes.

Bye the way, I have been determined to leave Windows XP, primarily because I'm fed up with my system getting slower and slower even immediately after boot-up, and so I tried several other Linux distributions in the past couple of days. OpenSUSE v11 has a nice WACOM GUI control tool, but it didn't work and I lost all mouse control, including my touchpad on my laptop. That was a shame as I liked the look of OpenSUSE, but I need my tablet to work. But Mandriva One Spring 2008 had my tablet working first time from the live CD without any modification; very nice. I'd already installed ubuntu to my hard drive, so before overwriting it with Mandriva, I gave it one last try as I liked the look of ubuntu a bit more than Mandriva. Close call. It would be nice if the ubuntu programmers were able to do the same with the tablet installation and setup, though.

Regards.

[Methuselah]

The instructions worked for me!
Thanks for putting this guide up.

[Thomaseov]

Hi, I just followed the instructions through (but substituted 8.0-3 for 8.0 throughout for the latest driver) and the good news is that my bamboo is working beautifully for the first time.

The bad news is though that my system is now buggered...I can't launch an x-session except for failsafe gnome, and even then I get an error that HAL has failed to initialize...leaving me with no wireless, no compiz, no shutdown...

I found an old post about this error with NVIDIA so I purged my invidia install and reinstalled fresh, but still the same.

Anybody? Help.
Thomas

[eddb0t]

Wacom on 8.04 Hardy

Worked like a charm, thanks.

[Thomaseov]

Hi, I just followed the instructions through (but substituted 8.0-3 for 8.0 throughout for the latest driver) and the good news is that my bamboo is working beautifully for the first time.

The bad news is though that my system is now buggered...I can't launch an x-session except for failsafe gnome, and even then I get an error that HAL has failed to initialize...leaving me with no wireless, no compiz, no shutdown...

I found an old post about this error with NVIDIA so I purged my invidia install and reinstalled fresh, but still the same.

Anybody? Help.
Thomas

UPDATE:
System is fine when tablet is unplugged. So to recap the bamboo works but only when started in failsafe, but still conflicts with HAL stopping HAL from initializing. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas?

It seems obvious that the tablet is conflicting with HAL for some resource. Also, when I plug the tablet in when already booted, it does act like a mouse, but is misaligned with screen and jumps around alot. But if I reboot with tablet attached, fails to launch regular x-session.

It is edubuntu 8.04 on a pundit p1-AH1 running on a generic kernel with onboard NVIDIA 6150 graphics.

Thanks
Thomas

[Cruce]

This is my second week of Ubuntu, i`m kinda newb at it, this howto was so comprehensive i actually managed to set up my Wacom Bamboo A6 Wide, works like a charm and i just wanned to say thanx A LOT!

[Kalibur]

I have gone through several how tos and still no break thru to get touch screen working. I am using an HP TX2000 running hardy heron 8.04 with the latest everything I just updated. I got my sound (no mic and headphone sound) and wireless working perfecting (ndiswrapper). The result from lsusb terminal command are:

kalibur@kal-tx2000:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 056a:0093 Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 08ff:1600 AuthenTec, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b015 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

May the guys that go the touchscreen working paste the results from command lsusb at terminal please. Thank you in advance

[setdosa]

Can you please please tell me how you got it working. I tried everything i can but I still dont see the /dev/input/wacom. I used linux 0.8.0, 0.7.9.11 devel version. the driver seems to work fine and it looks like the udev doesnt have 0093 listed. which is what lsusb gives 056a:0093. I tried adding the line manually after the neko version in the beginning to the 50-xser.. file which went like this

KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", DRIVERS=="wacom", ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="00", SYMLINK="input/wacom0"
KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", DRIVERS=="wacom", ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="01", SYMLINK="input/wacom1"

based on http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Slightly-m...d17449264.html
which didnt work either.

I tried wacdump with all the /dev/input/eventX but none of them are saying the Model is wacom.


Thanks a lot for helping me

[mlsandahl]

neko18,
Yesterday I bought a Bamboo Fun. I've started doing some wallpapers in GIMP, but until now I've done everything with a mouse. I followed your guide, and within 30 minutes I have a working tablet, pressure sensitivity and all! Many thanks!

It would be great to have these tablets automatically working out of the box, but luckily we have people like you writing how-to's like this.

I'm running Linux Mint 5, and I'll be posting a link to your post on their forums if there isn't one already. Great work!

Michael

[Momof9Blessings]

Hi all,

I went thru and did not have any error messages. I have a Compaq Presario V5000 and Wacom ET-0405-R.

lori@lori-laptop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*


# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "pad"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
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 "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "pad"
EndSection
lori@lori-laptop:~$ ls -l /dev/input
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 2008-06-29 18:54 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 180 2008-06-29 18:54 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 2008-06-29 18:54 event0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 2008-06-29 18:54 event1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 74 2008-06-29 18:54 event10
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 66 2008-06-29 18:54 event2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 2008-06-29 18:54 event3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 68 2008-06-29 18:54 event4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 69 2008-06-29 18:54 event5
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 70 2008-06-29 18:54 event6
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 71 2008-06-29 18:54 event7
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 72 2008-06-29 18:54 event8
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 73 2008-06-29 18:54 event9
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2008-06-29 18:54 mice
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2008-06-29 18:54 mouse0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 2008-06-29 18:54 mouse1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 34 2008-06-29 18:54 mouse2

Thank you,
Lori