Want auto-configuration or gui configuration of Wacom tablets

This is fixed with the following /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

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# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "latam"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "vmmouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
 Driver "synaptics"
 Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
 Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
 Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
 Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "Default Layout"
 Screen "Default Screen"
 InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
        InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
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I dunno why, but it worked :) see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4701832&posted=1#post4701832

This could not be put by default in Hardy Heron?

Adolfo

This is broken in hardy and the tablet has to be configured manually. I can confirm this is an issue. Hardy does not detect my ThinkPad X61T as a tablet and does not enable the WACOM tablet / display by default. As a user, you must manually change your xorg.conf file.

Even a simple "enable stylus / disable stylus" in the gnome control panel would be a huge help.

For a point of reference:
OpenSuSE has a GUI configuration for "pointers" which handles mouse and tablet stylus configuration.

I don't know if this should be filed under xorg-server or xorg-driver-synaptics instead

This is my xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
       Option "CorePointer"
       Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
       Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
       Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
       Option "Emulate3TimeOut" "50"
       Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
# Option "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
       Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
       Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
       Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
       Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver "wacom"
        Identifier "stylus"
        Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
        Option "Type" "stylus"
        Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
        Option "Button2" "3"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver "wacom"
        Identifier "eraser"
        Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
        Option "Type" "eraser"
        Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
        Option "Button3" "2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver "wacom"
        Identifier "cursor"
        Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
        Option "Type" "cursor
        Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
 Driver "synaptics"
 Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
 Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
 Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
 Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "intel"
# Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
# Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

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

It would be nice if Wacom graphic tablets would work with hotplugging without editing xorg.conf (especially as this needs a Xorg restart). I think this should be possible by the auto detection of Xorg

> Hardy does not detect my ThinkPad X61T as a tablet and does not enable the WACOM
> tablet / display by default.

I recently installed Hardy on my Thinkpad X41 tablet, and also experienced the issue of a non-working stylus. I noticed that /dev/input/wacom was actually there and configured correctly after the install, but (as reported above) none of the necessary configuration for using it with X was present in xorg.conf. Luckily, I'd backed up my xorg.conf from a previous install so I didn't have to dig very far to discover what the problem was.

For tablet PC users (there will probably be more of us soon, as most educators I demonstrate tablet technology to really like it), this seems like a bug in the Ubuntu installer. Shouldn't there be some logic to say that if a tablet is detected at install time, then the user will most definitely want the default xorg.conf to contain the relevant bits enabling the tablet?

Or perhaps an ubuntu-tablet package, which installs wacom-tools (needed for rotation), a rotation applet or script, cellwriter, and xournal? As a bonus, it could configure gdm and gnome-screensaver with an on-screen keyboard so tablet users could log in and use the screen-lock feature without having to unfold the tablet.

You could try this fdi-file (stolen from Fedora) and put it in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, to see how it works with the xserver in hardy:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- this is probably a bit imprecise -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input">
      <match key="info.product" contains="Wacom">
 <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wacom</merge>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

remember to use an xorg.conf without wacom entries on it.

I've tried it out what Timo Aaltonen said, but it didn't work. Xorg loads a module "wacom" but no specific options for the pencil (absolute positioning) and nothing is added to xorg.conf.
GIMP also only detects a normal "configured input device" and special graphic tablet features don't work.

Isn't it possible to let Jockey configure xorg.conf when he detects a wacom device?

Hi adolfoaz,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

This is still an issue for me, I think lspci would not make sense here since I have a tablet pc with a serial connection (I don't know if internal or emulated).

[Not really necessary to have this opened against xorg; the wacom-tools task is sufficient]

It would be appreciated if you could provide some clarification if there is something else we can track to indicate the status on resolving this issue.

Closing bugs without actually resolving the issue to the submitter(s) satisfaction is discouraging and happens all too often.

I would appreciate it, Bryce, if you could provide any information regarding where further information can be found regarding the resolution of our actual issue.

wacom-tools does not activate the tablet functionality of my X61t.

I have recently reinstalled with 8.10 and been testing the first Alpha of 9.04. This functionality is still not working out of the box.

Since you reference "the wacom-tools task is sufficient" can you please provide a link to where people that find this bug searching for resolution may find their resolution?

Thanks.

Sorry -- Ignore my comment above... I see it's still a wacom-tools bug... I haven't had my first cup of coffee this morning.

I humbly offer my apology :)

Anyway -- on another note. Here's my lspci output.

Ok -- I'm going to get my cup of coffee now... Way too early in the morning here :P

 I didn't run my last lspci with sudo ... here's my sudoed lspci

If you want to track the issue, there's a blueprint for Jaunty at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/wacom-tablets-ui

There's been a few discussions in ubuntu-devel-discuss, ubuntu-x, linuxwacom-discuss and linuxwacom-devel. Check the archives for October/November 2008. xorg mailing list has offered nothing (the person that proposed HAL and .fdi files for wacom tablets doesn't seem to have understood that HAL won't allow more than one device, and that it's not going to work).

As a quick summary, hotpluging won't allow a decent solution in the next few month, or even years (see the discussions), and nobody has even offered the beginning of a possible solution. So for the moment there's only xorg.conf.

__Don't forget the wizardpen driver.__ Wacom is too expensive for us normal folk.

This bug was fixed in the package wacom-tools - 1:0.8.2.2-0ubuntu1

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wacom-tools (1:0.8.2.2-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (LP: #355340)
  * Patch 100_allow_eraser.patch dropped, included in this version.
  * 100_fedora-fix-build.diff
    - Make the driver to build against xserver 1.6.
  * 101_fedora-fix-mapping.diff
    - No button 0 in the server, all offsets have to begin at 1.
  * 102_fedora-wcmmaxx.diff
    - Don't assign priv->wcmMaxX/Y back into common->wcmMaxX/Y.
  * 103_fedora-hal-setup.diff
    - Add a hal callout program to set up the device.
    (LP: #215689, #356091)
  * 104_revert-check.diff
    - Don't check the serial number, it breaks some devices.
  * Modify 10-wacom.fdi to include changes from Fedora. Should allow
    hotplugging (built-in) serial tablets. (LP: #337112)
  * rules:
    - Run autoreconf on build
    - xserver-xorg-input-wacom includes /usr/lib/hal/hal-setup-wacom
  * control:
    - autoreconf: add automake, libtool to build-deps.
    - hal-setup-wacom: add libhal-dev to build-deps.

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:06:54 +0200

Very good news, thanks for this.

Is this fix in jaunty? Moreover, wacom-tools is currently not installed by default in jaunty, making the tablet the only non-autoconfigured device on my Toshiba M400. Should I file a bug about this?

Sorry, I see the fix is in jaunty, remains the auto-install of the package.

running /usr/lib/hal/hal-setup-wacom produces the following error:

hal-setup-wacom: Failed to get UDI

the wacom pen works after install wacom-tools and rebooting (I can move the mouse with the pen) but I cannot find a GUI to configure it... all buttons on the pen = left (primary) click. Button 1, button 2 and button 3 all perform a primary / left click behavior.

I guess the tablet GUI won't make it into Jaunty? Do Loic or Alberto have any news about this?

No, it was unfortunately postponed for karmic.

Hasn't made it into Karmic, Lucid or Meerkat.. Seems to be postponed till forever.