Wacom tablets in Ubuntu guide/howto

[jomsa]

(II) config/udev: Adding input device Wacom Intuos3 6x8 (/dev/input/event6)
(**) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: Applying InputClass "evdev tablet catchall"
(**) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: Applying InputClass "Wacom class"
(II) LoadModule: "wacom"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so
(II) Module wacom: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 0.10.5
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(II) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: type not specified, assuming 'stylus'.
(II) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: other types will be automatically added.
(**) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: always reports core events
(II) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: hotplugging dependent devices.
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(**) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 eraser: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Wacom Intuos3 6x8 eraser" (type: ERASER)
(--) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 eraser: using pressure threshold of 61 for button 1
(--) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 eraser: Wacom USB Intuos3 tablet speed=38400 maxX=40640 maxY=30480 maxZ=1023 resX=5080 resY=5080  tilt=enabled
(--) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 eraser: top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=40640 bottom Y=30480 resol X=5080 resol Y=5080
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(**) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 cursor: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Wacom Intuos3 6x8 cursor" (type: CURSOR)
(--) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 cursor: top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=40640 bottom Y=30480 resol X=5080 resol Y=5080
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(**) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 pad: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Wacom Intuos3 6x8 pad" (type: PAD)
(--) Wacom Intuos3 6x8 pad: top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=40640 bottom Y=30480 resol X=5080 resol Y=5080
(II) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: hotplugging completed.
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Wacom Intuos3 6x8" (type: STYLUS)
(--) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=40640 bottom Y=30480 resol X=5080 resol Y=5080
(II) config/udev: Adding input device Wacom Intuos3 6x8 (/dev/input/mouse2)
(II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)

the log contained shitload of stuff, but i think this was the most important bit?

[confubar]

Favux...
I am using jaunty, perhaps should go ahead and upgrade.
I let the update manager get some small odds and ends... not the kernel update: when I got that a while back I got the tablet working again by repeating what you had told me to do. I poked around the update manager and didn't find any history of whatI had done.

[Favux]

Hi confubar,

You could try upgrading to Karmic. It's about the same as Jaunty except 10-wacom.fdi becomes 10-linuxwacom.fdi. I wouldn't go to Lucid just yet. We're still trying to figure it out and Lucid lacks wacomcpl. Or we could try to figure out what's happening if you're happy with Jaunty.


Hi jomsa,

I would have preferred to see the whole thing but from what you've showed it sure looks like the stylus is being rejected by the wacom driver and picked up by evdev. Which doesn't make much sense. How are you configuring? Are you using just the 10-wacom.conf at /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/?

[jomsa]

I havent done any configuration really. I was on the hopes it would work from 9.10 directly, as it almost seemed to do.

The file 10-wacom.conf contains ->

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Wacom class"
    MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Wacom serial class"
    MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet"
    Driver "wacom"
    Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
EndSection

# N-Trig Duosense Electromagnetic Digitizer
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Wacom N-Trig class"
    MatchProduct "HID 1b96:0001"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "wacom"
EndSection

[Favux]

Sorry, dbl. post.

[Favux]

OK, that looks correct.

I havent done any configuration really.

In that case you wouldn't have any custom entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. Did you upgrade? Were there Wacom entries in your xorg.conf? Have you checked the contents?

We could try modifying a stylus button and see if that has any affect. It should if the wacom driver has the stylus.

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Wacom class"
    MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "wacom"
    Option "Button2" "3"
EndSection

[jomsa]

Yeah i upgraded with the upgrade... automate,.. thingie. Forgot what it is called.
xorg.conf in /etc/X11 contains no mention of any kind about wacom.

Starting to feel annoying n00b... :S

[Favux]

Hi jomsa,

Starting to feel annoying n00b... :S

Don't, the Intuos3 has always been a little idiosyncratic.

So the conclusion is the match line is not picking up your Intuos3's stylus. Maybe that's true with other Intuos3's?

So we need to follow the branch on the device tree that has your stylus. See what's going on and if we can modify the match line. To do that we need to look at udevadmin info:

udevadm info --export-db > $HOME/udevadm-info.txt

The whole thing. Right click and compress it with Create Archive and attach to your next post.

Did you notice in your Xorg.0.log:

(--) Wacom Intuos3 6x8: top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=40640 bottom Y=30480 resol X=5080 resol Y=5080

that bottom X & Y look like the sum of your two monitor's resolution?

[jomsa]

I have two monitors next to each other both running at 1680x1050 Now with my math, i cant make them to go over 10000 in any dimension Or then i am understanding something really wrong here. :S

I hope the attachment contains what you wanted.

[pkchips]

Hello guys, I'm getting a little confused and was hoping someone could help me.

I've tried to look through these threads and work things out for myself, and I now have the pen and the finger working as a pad. However, the buttons all seem to do the same thing: Move my mouse to the top left and open the GNOME menu.

I was wondering how to make my buttons work properly in Lucid? I don't understand the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wa...hlight=((Wacom))