Info and help for HP TX2500 Series

[gali98]

isachan
I have the tx2000z, but I think the wacom on our tablets is similar if not exact.
That being said I have everything working in 0.8.1-1 (stylus eraser touch) with the exception of the pressure still not working, but I submited and email on the mailing lists at sourceforge and ping (one of the devs) replied back.
Here is the tutorial if you want to try it....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...47#post5469447

if would be interested in that bug you are talking about..
I'm no coder, but I think I could fix the source given a while
Kory

[Weststar]

I feel like somewhat of an idiot right now.

I just realized that I have been using/downloading 32bit versions of all my ISOs. So I downloaded 64bit and would you look at this, I works just fine. Still odd though that 32 bit won't work at all.

Just running through your instructions now. I have ethernet now so it seems to be doing its job.

Edit: everything is good to go except sound for me. Thanks for helping me out. I'll look to see if I mistyped those lines.

Hmm, I didn't realize that this only works for 64 bit! =|

Is switching from 32 to 64 much of a big deal? I hear about many compatibility issues =(

[vokesalex]

Cheers guys for all the help you've given on this thread. It's been a great help getting things working using Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 Remix 64Bit.

I also managed to get the touchscreen working on my tx2520ea last night using the same guide as posted in #131. I compiled version 7.9-11 as I've heard this version is better.

I was just wondering how I should best go about calibrating my stylus. I've read that some people have used wacomcpl to achieve this but others have said there are problems with it. Is it just a matter of editing the TopX, TopY, BottomX, and BottomY values in xorg.conf until the stylus matches the cursor.

Apologies for my noob'ness, but all my experiences with linux so far have been with OpenSUSE and i'm not familiar with the equivalent tools in Ubuntu.

[pluckster]

Its all good actually. Your instructions are right on. I mistyped position so after I fixed that everything was good to go.

Now on to the tablet.

[gali98]

Cheers guys for all the help you've given on this thread. It's been a great help getting things working using Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 Remix 64Bit.

I also managed to get the touchscreen working on my tx2520ea last night using the same guide as posted in #131. I compiled version 7.9-11 as I've heard this version is better.

I was just wondering how I should best go about calibrating my stylus. I've read that some people have used wacomcpl to achieve this but others have said there are problems with it. Is it just a matter of editing the TopX, TopY, BottomX, and BottomY values in xorg.conf until the stylus matches the cursor.

Apologies for my noob'ness, but all my experiences with linux so far have been with OpenSUSE and i'm not familiar with the equivalent tools in Ubuntu.

Well I'm glad my tutorial is being used.
Yes 7.9-11 will probably work better until the folks at linux wacom release a new package.. (I think it will be very soon)
Really the only thing wrong is the pressure sensitivty.

And yes just editing those four values will do it. Be careful though, using the wacomcpl to calibrate after calibrating using xorg.conf will mess everything up.
i.e. don't use both to calibrate, just use one....
Kory

[pluckster]

Been playing around with some stuff and one thing I've noticed is that I can't get any more than one workspace at a time. I noticed this when trying to set up a desktop cube and other compiz stuff. any ideas?

[corwinspyre]

Been playing around with some stuff and one thing I've noticed is that I can't get any more than one workspace at a time. I noticed this when trying to set up a desktop cube and other compiz stuff. any ideas?

install compizconfig-settings-manager, and go to general options->desktop size and set horizontal virtual size to 4 (the others should be 1) if you want a cube

[pluckster]

Yeah I had all that going but my problem is even without the cube I only seem to be able to access one workspace. It shows four in the bottom right but I can't click on them or use any of the shortcuts to change workspace.

[AstronomyDomine]

Download to desktop:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/downl...79&aid=1949610

http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/s...7.9-11.tar.bz2

sudo rmmod wacom
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xf linuxwacom-0.7.9-11.tar.bz2
cd linuxwacom-0.7.9-11
patch -p1 < ~/Desktop/unified-patch-w-eraser_k22-k24.txt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential x11proto-core-dev libxau-dev libxdmcp-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev libx11-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev linux-libc-dev libc6-dev libncurses5-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk-dev tcl-dev tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev libncurses5-dev xserver-xorg-dev -y
./configure --enable-wacom
make
sudo make install
sudo rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
sudo cp src/2.6.24/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
sudo depmod -ae
sudo modprobe wacom
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Module"
        Load            "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
	InputDevice    "TabletPCStylus"
	InputDevice    "TabletPCStylus2"
	InputDevice    "TabletPCStylus3"
EndSection

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" 			"stylus"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents" 	"true
	Option		"Device" 		"/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.5-usb-0:2:1.1-event-"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier     "TabletPCStylus3"
	Driver         "wacom"
	Option         "ForceDevice" 		"ISDV4"
	Option         "Type" 			"eraser"
	Option         "SendCoreEvents" 	"true"
	Option         "Device" 		"/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
EndSection


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

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Option "RandRRotation"  "on"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

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

Reboot or restart X. Post with results.

Edit: All credit goes to Andrew Zappacky who not only wrote the TabletPC kernel-level code, but also guided me through setting it up, step by step.

[fbdelivers]

Reboot or restart X. Post with results.

Edit: All credit goes to Andrew Zappacky. He coded the Tablet PC driver from scratch.

I just gave it a shot - and when I rebooted the tablet pen no longer worked. I went back trough your steps and noticed the following.

patch -pl < ~/Desktop/unified-patch-w-eraser_k22-k24.txt 
patch: **** strip count l is not a number

I'll double check to see what I did wrong.

Update - I just noticed that wacom module didn't load so something must have gone wrong when booting.