Aiptek USB tablet (device 08ca:0010) does not work as expected

[Joachim R.]

The EXPECTED behaviour of my Trust TB-4200 tablet (reported as "08ca:0010 Aiptek International, Inc. Tablet" by lsusb) :
 - moving cursor when moving pen over tablet
 - clicking as mouse button 1 when typing pen on tablet
 - dragging/tracing when moving pen while touching/pressing the tablet
This is the OS X behaviour (tested on Gimp 2.4)
The tablet is behaviouring fine on windows

ACTUAL Ubuntu 8.10 behaviour :
like explained at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1029302
To sum up :
 - moving pen over tablet moves cursor until you touch the tablet
 - then moving cursor requires you to touch the tablet while moving
 - impossible to drag/trace without clikcing mouse button (not very easy!)

Note : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AiptekTablet didn't helped

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in xserver-xorg-input-aiptek.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

This is also true for Karmic.

I also tested it briefly on Lucid, there it didn't seam to work at all, but more testing is needed here as i was on a buggy test machine.

[SlaughterDog (slaughterdog)]

I'm having the same problem with Lucid. After touching the pen to the tablet, in order to get it to move the cursor again without clicking/dragging, I must lift the pen away from the tablet until it can't detect it any more, then lower it again.

Also, gimp crashes after the pen has been enabled and I click on anything outside of the main drawing window.

[hva (francesco-hermanitosverdes)]

@SlaughterDog

for configuration on Lucid, I wrote a few notes about my experience here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AiptekTablet

[Florian Staudacher (florian-staudacher)]

Experiencing the same behaviour as the reporter, moving the pen away from the tablet and then using it again helps, but isn't the way to go. Also the buttons on the pen are mapped wrongly.

I'm using an Aiptek SlimTablet 600U