wacom tablet touch function rotation only rotates "press" event, "release" is unchanged

[sanktnelson]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-wacom

I own a lenovo x61T tablet PC. It is convenient to be able to rotate the screen and wacom input, which I do with the popular auto-rotate.py script. This uses xsetwacom to set the stylus, eraser, and touch input orientations. Eraser and stylus input are rotated correctly, but touch behaves strangely. It only seems to rotate the "mouse button pressed" event, while the "mouse release" event stays unrotated. The symptom of this is that when I try to click somewhere on the screen, the cursor is underneath my finger while I am touching the screen but jumps back to the "unrotated" position when I release my finger.
This happens both when using the autorotate script and when calling xsetwacom by hand.
This makes usage of the touch function in any rotation other than normal completely impossible and therefore removes a very nice piece of functionality from this hardware.

This is a regression, since it worked fine in Karmic.

To get my tablet working properly in other respects (stylus buttons, touch calibration, auto rotation) I've had to remove /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf and use a custom xorg.conf which I have attached.

[sanktnelson (launchpad-maibaums)]

*bump*
anything? Bug still persists 4 months into the lifetime of the LTS release...

[Pawel Jonik (paweljonik)]

Just to note: lately I've installed xf86-input-wacom from git and the problem seems to be solved there.

[sanktnelson (launchpad-maibaums)]

I tried that at some point within the last few months, but failed because I believe it wanted some newer version of some x.org files. Care to share a short howto of what you did?

[Pawel Jonik (paweljonik)]

I followed this how-to: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6546012&postcount=1 (Section 2). Tried on Lucid 32bit (on Lenovo X200t).

[Rick @ rickandpatty.com (rick-rickandpatty)]

This bug is still present in 1:0.10.5-0ubuntu4.1 from lucid-proposed.