[Regression] [Intrepid] wacom pen not working by default

[Marius Muja]

Wacom pen doesn't work in Kubuntu 8.10 beta.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Confirming since there was recent discussion about this on ubuntu-devel-discuss.

To the reporter:
This can't be (fully) fixed with the current version of hal. There are structural changes taking place to move things from xorg to hal. In the meantime, it is possible to get semi-working support by modifying xorg.conf following what was said here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-September/005745.html

I'm going to subscribe Oliver, since he was working on fdi files for different types of tablets and would know better what information is needed to get semi-working support in hal.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

can you attach your lshal output ?

[Marius Muja (mariusmuja)]

I got the pen working by modifying the xorg.conf file.

I attached the lshal output.

[Timothy Cooper (timoap)]

I have a toshiba L40 laptop

Prior to yesterdays [89] updates to Ububtu 8.10 beta the system recognized the Wacom tablet; you could move the cursor around using the stylus......... the prolem was that as soon as the stylus touched the pad it foze.

However since the updates of yesterday there is zero response to this device even though I have modified Xorg.config.

[Daniel Petty (mixmatch)]

Adding the following allowed me to use the wacom, however the side buttons do not seem to be functioning.

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver "wacom"
        Identifier "stylus"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option "Type" "stylus"
        Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
        Option "Button2" "3"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver "wacom"
        Identifier "cursor"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option "Type" "cursor"
        Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
        Option "Button1" "2"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Default Layout"
        Screen "Default Screen"
        InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

[Timothy Cooper (timoap)]

I had already tried that, but the system is not even responding to the
stylus in any way at all.
TC

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Can people with different hardware please file separate bugs? Marius, Timothy, and Daniel could all have slightly different models that need different tweaks. Or, alternatively, Marius, after editing your xorg.conf, are you having any of the issues those two are reporting?

[Marius Muja (mariusmuja)]

No, the pen worked for me after editing xorg.conf. To make the buttons work as I wanted them to, I created the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99startup, with the following content:

/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus button2 "button 3"
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set eraser button1 "button 2"

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I don't see how to fix this in hal-info. If someone knows, please leave instructions here and reassign.

[dozer (matthew-pocock)]

The edit to xorg.conf works on my tablet - an HP Compaq 2710p. It would be nice if this worked without my intervention though.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi mariusmuja,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!