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#1 2011-10-29 19:53:39

ilikepie
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Registered: 2009-10-28
Posts: 38

My Wacom tablet works fine in OpenSUSE — but not in Arch

Hi,

I've had problems with my Wacom Graphire4 tablet in Arch. Basically, if I press the tablet's side buttons while the stylus is close enough to the tablet, the cursor jumps a hundred-ish pixels back for a fraction of a second, and then any subsequent keyboard/mouse/tablet input is garbled. I have to switch to a tty and back to X to 'fix' it.

So, I tried pretty much everything I could:

  • Trying again each month, in the hope that something has been fixed. (Since May of this year.)

  • Reverting to an older version of the wacom driver.

  • Using the driver's git package from AUR.

  • Reinstalling dbus.

  • Reinstalling xorg.  (maybe I didn't do it throroughly enough?)

  • Wiping all of /etc/X11.

  • Using some udev rules provided in a bug report.

  • Loading at boot ALL the modules that SUSE loads that weren't loaded in my Arch install.

None of which worked.

Well, just for kicks, I downloaded OpenSUSE's latest live CD, namely 12.1 RC 1 or something, and lo! The tablet works fine with it out of the box. It also seems to use the same version of the driver that I use right now (xf86-input-wacom 0.11.1).

So I'm obviously doing something wrong. But what? Does anyone have any idea what I could do to fix this?

Thanks.

Edit: interestingly enough, if I uninstall any kind of xf86-input-wacom, the tablet half-works, including pressure levels; but then I can't configure the side buttons with xsetwacom and they're useless. Also, without an xf86 driver, there is no distinction between the nib and the eraser.

Last edited by ilikepie (2011-10-29 22:11:36)

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#2 2011-10-30 16:05:49

ilikepie
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Registered: 2009-10-28
Posts: 38

Re: My Wacom tablet works fine in OpenSUSE — but not in Arch

If anyone cares, here's how I half-assedly solved it: http://translate.google.com/translate?u … =&ie=UTF-8

(the translation messes with code and file names so you may need to hover over that to see it right)

Definitely not a clean way to do it though

Last edited by ilikepie (2011-10-30 16:07:52)

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