Talk:Wacom Tablet

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Contents 1 UPDATE 1.1 2008/03/31 1.2 2008/02/17 2 Serial port 3 Screen Area 4 Question

[edit] UPDATE

[edit] 2008/03/31

Hi, Koda here I've added the Setserial option which activated the touchscreen on my tablet (toshiba m200) I agree about the removal of non-udev section as this page is in need of a deep cleanup.

[edit] 2008/02/17

I'm not going to perform any changes yet myself because I haven't done much testing and only own one tablet. Maybe things are still different for other tablets.

The Wacom Bamboo One works (almost) fine with the recent gentoo-sources (2.6.23-r8) and the latest (yet still masked) version of x11-drivers/linuxwacom (M ~0.7.9_p7) with the "module" useflag enabled.

The only thing that doesn't work yet, is wacomcpl which doesn't list any devices at all. Is there anyone who got that to work properly?

Can the red warning box at the beginning be removed/replaced by updated hints related to Bamboo One?

The section "Kernel Bamboo Support" is deprecated because there are already newer ebuilds in portage.

Furthermore, I think that the non-udev parts should be removed as nobody uses devfs anymore (I hope so!). I actually think that even the udev section itself is unecessary because linuxwacom creates /etc/udev/rules.d/60-wacom.rules which contains all needed (and up-to-date, as long as a sufficiently new version is used) rules.

There are tablets, for example the Bamboo One (which ones else?), which lack an eraser, so the corresponding sections in the xorg.conf should at least be commented in a descriptive way.

[edit] Serial port

i could not find a document which covers installation of wacoms, which get connected via serial port. Here the steps:

- emerge linuxwacom

- enable serial ports in kernel if not done and recompile+reboot

- check if wacom works with wacdump (should show output like position and pressure): wacdump /dev/ttyS0

- modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
       ...
       InputDevice    "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
       InputDevice    "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"
       InputDevice    "cursor"    "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Driver "wacom"
   Identifier "cursor"
   Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
   Option "Type" "cursor"
   Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Driver "wacom"
   Identifier "stylus"
   Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
   Option "Type" "stylus"
   Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Driver "wacom"
   Identifier "eraser"
   Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
   Option "Type" "eraser"
   Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
EndSection

- restart X and get happy

[edit] Screen Area

when configuraing evdev, make sure to set your screen resolution correctly.

[edit] Question

Could be added info about latest(or tested at least) versions of xorg-server and kernel which is known to work with current portage`s linuxwacom(0.7.4-p3)? Because there seems to be a problems with 1.4 xorg-server - as it`s not supported by linuxwacom yet. (support promised from 0.8).