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xorg package

  1. Bug #28846
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 28846

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Ralf Hölzemer (cheleb-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Just to give some feedback on this,

i did a fresh install of Dapper Flight5, installed wacom-tools from the repros to get the wacom symlink in /dev/input/, copied the already compiled version of the xorg driver (wacom_drv.so in the prebuilt directory) from the linuxwacom site to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/, chowned the driver to root:root, chmoddet the driver -x and changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf according to the linuxwacom HOWTO.
(http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/inputdev)
(http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/srvlayout)

Note that in the InputDevices section in the HOWTO, the Option "Device" lines are set to /dev/ttyS# for serial devices and to /dev/input/event# for usb devices.
Because the init script in wacom-tools takes care of symlinking the right device to /dev/wacom or /dev/input/wacom, you'll just have to replace the path in the device lines in xorg and set them accordingly.

So now, after weeks of fighting with the kernel driver, the old breezy X11 driver and the new xorg driver from linuxwacom i am finally able to use my wacom tablet (yay!).

With my previous installation (breezy dist-upgraded to dapper), i was unable to get any events out of wacdump and therefore the xorg driver refused to do anything.

That said, the issue still stands. All of that shebang shouldn't be necessary and there should be an easy method for wacom users to actually use their tablet. Dapper is considered to be "enterprise-ready". I am a graphics artist in a small company with no administrator employed. A wacom tablet is as important as e.g. a mouse or a monitor for us and i know many other companies that are in the very same situation. Not being able to use a tablet more or less "out-of-the-box(tm)" simply is a no-go for Ubuntu in such coorperate environments.

Maybe there could be a new xserver-xorg-input-wacom package with an updated xorg driver from linuxwacom and a script similar to the "nvidia-glx-config" script that tages care of the necessary entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as stated above?