wacom stylus on TC1100 tablet does not work out of the box

Please try the package from my PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~tjaalton/+archive/ppa

I installed the package wacom-tools (1:0.8.2.2-0ubuntu0.2) from your ppa on a Jaunty Alpha 5 live CD and the stylus still doesn't work.

ok, attach the Xorg.0.log you get from it, and the output of "lshal > lshal.txt". It might need some changes to the hal fdi file.

How do I get the Xorg.0.log ?

The Xorg.0.log should be in your /var/log/ folder.

before restarting x

after restarting x (via logout & login)

I also have the earlier logs attached above from the original report if those are helpful.

This is enough, thanks. The logfile has

(WW) config/hal: no driver or path specified for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_WACf005

and lshal:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_WACf005'
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.tablet', 'input.tablet.tabletPC'} (string list)
  info.linux.driver = 'serial' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  info.product = 'Wacom Serial Tablet PC Pen Tablet/Digitizer' (string)
  info.subsystem = 'pnp' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_WACf005' (string)
  input.x11_driver = 'wacom' (string)
  input.x11_options.Type = 'stylus' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'pnp' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pnp0/00:06' (string)
  pnp.description = 'Wacom Serial Tablet PC Pen Tablet/Digitizer' (string)
  pnp.id = 'WACf005' (string)
  pnp.serial.irq = 4 (0x4) (int)
  pnp.serial.port = '0x300' (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_WACf005_serial_platform_0'
  access_control.file = '/dev/ttyS0' (string)
  access_control.type = 'modem' (string)
  info.callouts.add = {'hal-acl-tool --add-device'} (string list)
  info.callouts.remove = {'hal-acl-tool --remove-device'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'serial', 'access_control'} (string list)
  info.category = 'serial' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_WACf005' (string)
  info.product = 'Wacom Serial Tablet PC Pen Tablet/Digitizer' (string)
  info.subsystem = 'tty' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_WACf005_serial_platform_0' (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/ttyS0' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'tty' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pnp0/00:06/tty/ttyS0' (string)
  serial.device = '/dev/ttyS0' (string)
  serial.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_WACf005' (string)
  serial.port = 0 (0x0) (int)
  serial.type = 'platform' (string)

it should use the latter device, but the x11_driver key was appended to the wrong hal device. I'll try to come up with something.

I actually think this is a bug in our version of HAL. The same rule works on Fedora, where the rule was copied from. The versions are not too different though, so it should be possible to identify a fix. Here is the rule that's not honored:

    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="serial">
      <match <email address hidden>:pnp.id" contains_outof="WACf001;WACf002;WACf003;WACf004;WACf005;WACf006;WACf007;WACf008;WACf009;WACf00a;WACf00b;WACf00c;FUJ02e5">
        <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">input</append>
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wacom</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.Type" type="string">stylus</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.ForceDevice" type="string">ISDV4</merge>
        <merge key="input.device" type="copy_property">serial.device</merge>
        <append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-wacom</append>
        <append key="wacom.types" type="strlist">eraser</append>
        <match <email address hidden>:pnp.id" contains_outof="WACf008;WACf009">
          <!-- Serial tablets with touch capabilities -->
          <append key="wacom.types" type="strlist">touch</append>
        </match>
      </match>
    </match>

why did it stop at x11_options.Type and didn't merge the rest?

I'll check the fdi file first, it could be broken.

ok, the fdi file is flawed. Could you try changing the first matching rule like this:

- <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input">
+ <match key="info.category" contains="input">

and try again. It should work then.

Could you attach your /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-wacom.fdi ? The version from my package should already be fixed..

here it is before installing your package

here it is after installing your wacom-tools

I installed your xserver-xorg-input-wacom_0.8.2.2-0ubuntu0.2_i386.deb (in addition to your wacom-tools), restarted x, and now the stylus works. However it does not have right click functionality with the stylus button. The button is recognized because it does something. For example, using the button and clicking a title bar causes the window to lose focus. Pressure sensitivity works fine.

Attached my xorg log.
On ubuntu 8.10 the button2 option needed to be added to the xorg.conf like this in order for the button to work.
Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "stylus"
   Driver "wacom"
   Option "Type" "stylus"
   Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
   Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
   Option "Button2" "3"
EndSection

hope this helps. thank you very much for working on this!

Thanks for confirming that it works! I became worried that the package was faulty somehow, since I knew it _should_ work.

The button mapping can be set in an fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, you can copy 10-wacom.fdi there and edit it so that it has only the bits you need. The driver doesn't support input properties yet, so you can't change the settings on the fly (by using xinput or the API).

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

How do I add the right click button in hal then?