Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch + Fedora 13

[DBelton]

yes. If you noticed in the instructions above, the ONLY thing that you use from the linuxwacom drivers is the kernel module that gets built.

For some reason, the kernel module included in fedora doesn't support all of the tablets that the linuxwacom module does.

The X driver you use is the one from the packages in the fedora repo.

The error you are getting could be because you don't have the kernel-devel package for whatever kernel version you are running installed. Try installing the kernel-devel and kernel-headers packages, then build the kernel module again.

[davemason]

I have been trying to make this work. Just got a Bamboo. I have have the same error that the xorg driver needs to be < 1.8.

The error you are getting could be because you don't have the kernel-devel package for whatever kernel version you are running installed. Try installing the kernel-devel and kernel-headers packages, then build the kernel module again.

I have these packages installed, but I must be missing some sym-links or other configuration since ./configure always gives the message:

"NOTE: the X driver in this package only supports Xorg servers older than 1.7.
You are running a newer version.
Please build the X driver from xf86-input-wacom.
The kernel driver provided in this package is independent of
the X server version"

The kernel I am at is 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.x86_64 and xorg version is 1.8.2

Do the instructions above work for X > 1.7?

[DBelton]

that is because you ONLY compile and build the kernel module out of the linuxwacom package. You use the driver for the Xorg server from the xorg-x11-drv-wacom package.

You shouldn't even get that error message if you use the ./configure line I have above.

./configure --disable-libwacomcfg --disable-libwacomxi --disable-wacdump --disable-xidump --disable-xsetwacom --disable-wacomxrrd --disable-wacomdrv --enable-wacom

You specifically disable building the wacom Xorg driver, and only are building the kernel module.

The instructions I put above work on F11-F14, I run it on kernel 2.6.35.10-74.fc14 with the latest Fedora Xserver. linuxwacom updated the driver a few months ago, and it is now version linuxwacom-0.8.8-10, but the old version still works.

[davemason]

Missed a reboot in there somewhere. Now the pad is reacting to touch and pen. Now to figure out how to configure it now that Fedora 14 does not use xorg.conf.

The tablet configuration in KDE is still greyed out.

[DBelton]

F14 does still use /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists. it also uses snippets from the xorg.conf file that are placed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

There is a conf file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf for the wacom tablet, but there isn't much in the default file.

[davemason]

Thanks for telling me of the new locations for xorg.conf files. I can see now what the idea behind getting rid of one large conf file. Now individual pieces of hardware just have to worry about their own conf files.

Learned something new today... thanks for that.

[DBelton]

Now maybe with things slowing down for me some at work, I can get back to playing around with the config for my wacom tablet more and come up with a config file that works and I can share with others on here.

[davemason]

Started playing around with the wacom X11 config in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf. It did not work out as expected. Do you know if F14 uses the other files if a conf. file exists in /etc/X11?

The nvidia dual monitor twinview settings are missing on a reboot. That just means I need to study how the conf files work.

The main thing I see is that the touch mode works, but not very well, and I would like to change the layout so the buttons are on the right side, so I can use my left hand with touch or pen.

I found Option "Rotate" "CW"|"CCW"|"HALF"|"NONE"

rotates the tablet orientation counterclockwise (CCW) or
clockwise (CW) or 180 degrees (HALF). If you have specific
tablet mappings, i.e. TopX/Y or BottomX/Y were set, the
mapping will be applied before rotation. The default is
"NONE".

and tried: Option "Rotate" "HALF" , but it did not make a difference. Of course, I probable put it in the wrong section. Would you agree that this option would work for switching between right or left hand usage?

[DBelton]

attached is an example /etc/X11/xorg.conf file I found that has a lot of the wacom settings in it. I know it won't work as it is, but if you were to pull out the sections that you want, it may work.

It will give you some example of where the options go, anyway.

well, it won't let me attach it again.. look back up at post #10 in this thread and it's up there.

[beaker_]

I've been staring at this to long so does anyone else want to try this and tell me if it works as expected? I've convinced myself it does and can see it being loaded in Xorg.0.log however I've been looking at to long. It's DBelton's xorg.conf rewritten, sorry I missed your mods from today, and you toss it into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.

Summary: No xorg.conf, it goes into /etc/X11.xorg.conf.d instead, plug it in where ever you want, move it around if you like, and restart with it plugged in.

Yeah I'm flying by the seat of my pants and it probably has a long ways to go so point out what's wrong. Nonetheless but I'm enjoying this weekend on my skiis. Thank you DBelton.

[beaker_]

Sorry for the double post. Try this one instead. Like I said; been staring at it too long and flying by the seat of my pants. Not 100% but it should show where it going. My problem is discriminating the classes. i.e., the pen from the eraser... but I see "relative" working again so hopefully someone else is more knowledgeable on the matches.


Late edit: I just uploaded some changes. Amazing what you see when yo walk away for a couple hours. My problem, if considered a problem, is matching the stylus and touch exclusively. .conf seams to pickup on Pen and Finger which also apply to eraser and pad so; both pen and eraser classes are applied to eraser; both finger and pad classes are applied to pad. Yep back to R'ingTFM.

[DBelton]

thanks!

It looks like you did as I was going to do. Play around with it, commenting out things, and then un-commenting them as needed and see how it works.

From looking in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log it looks like stylus and eraser are assigned to the Pen; touch and pad are assigned to Finger.

My guess is it will take a little experimenting to get the settings just how you want them, but you have made a great start!

[beaker_]

I was goofing around this am and pulled my info from; man wacom, and http://www.x.org/releases/current/do...xhtml#heading9 .

Although I want to match the "Pen" and "Eraser" separately. i.e., not have both my "Pen" and "Eraser" classes assigned to the eraser, same is true for finger and pad, there's alot to be said about their commonality. Considering the classes appear to be assigned in order of appearance... no biggie, you can overwrite it anyway(?).

For Ex.,
Pen

  Option       "Mode"          "Relative"            # RELATIVE or ABSOLUTE
  Option       "TopX"          "0"                   # TOP CORNER OF ACTIVE ZONE (0=DEAULT)
  Option       "TopY"          "0"                   # TOP CORNER OF ACTIVE ZONE (0=DEFAULT)
#  Option       "BottomX"       "14720"               # BOTTOM CORNER OF ACTIVE ZONE
#  Option       "BottomY"       "9200"                # BOTTOM CORNER OF ACTIVE ZONE
  Option        "Rotate"       "NONE"                   #"CW"|"CCW"|"HALF"|"NONE"

Eraser

  Option       "Mode"          "Absolute"            # RELATIVE or ABSOLUTE

Makes a silly but rather cool tablet. My question then becomes; does anyone have their mind wrapped around twinview wrt TVresolution wrt ScreenNo MMonitor?

[DBelton]

I believe the reason that the stylus and eraser are seen as the same is because they are pretty much the same device. Really 2 pieces of 1 device. (the eraser is basically just another stylus)

You should have stylus and eraser both being assigned to Pen.

I'll bet that is an interesting set up with the stylus being relative and the eraser being absolute does it mess up the screen area that one of them is active for?

One thing I have been looking at doing is finding a way to turn the touch pad on/off when I wish, maybe with a script or something. And to also reassign the buttons on the pad and pen.

The other default values, I have pretty much gotten used to now, but still want to play around with them some.

Now if I can just find a super cheap place to grab replacement stylus tips for my pen.. I've eaten up 9 or 10 in the past year..
Those things cost about a dollar apiece if you grab them from wacom, and not much cheaper any place else I have found.

Some of the biggest problems I have seen are with people trying to get their tablet working with multiple monitors. If you are running with your monitors cloned, then it's not much of a problem, but if you are creating a larger desktop area, then I think what I have seen it do is to set the tablet to the total desktop size, and spans the monitors. usually that isn't what you would want. You would probably want it to be the size of one monitor, but be able to switch it to whatever monitor you want. What would be even more of a problem is if your monitors are different resolutions.

I forget now the solutions that I have seen people posting that had this problem, though. I need to go back and look them up again.

[beaker_]

xsetwacom set "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger pad" TOUCH off

where
xsetwacom --list
Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen eraser ERASER
Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus STYLUS
Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger pad PAD
Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch TOUCH

Sorry but that's the only one I know off the top. Yeah, just a batch or shortcut key stroke.

Late edit: It applies both classes because of "MatchProduct". It doesn't see "stylus" but does see "Pen" which appears in both STYLUS and ERASER. Unfortunately I can't say pen and !eraser. "stylus" alone is never matched, well for me it's not. I've given up on it and thinking more about a global so, if I'm lucky, I'll have something decent for both my bamboo and intuos.

Late Late edit: I was reading http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/in...owto/xsetwacom before and it shows button reassignment. I'm pretty sure you can do the same through .conf also. However I haven't found a list of "buttons" or adjectives to go by. mmm where did this moring go. Ski time.

Opps look like xsetwacom set "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Finger touch" TOUCH off will also turn it off.