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lvomrm

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Registered: 2011-12-13

Posts: 4

[unsolved] I want to tweak my tablet, I need to modify my xorg.conf.

Hi

I recently got myself a cheap but effective tablet to write quick notes with my laptop.
It worked great out-if-the-box, no need to install anything or configure something.

But now i want to tweak the threshold so i won't need so much pressure to write with it. I found a solution for Wacom-Tablets, You can just write that Option into the xorg.conf so the threshold is changed. But i don't have an entry for my tablet and apparently i don't need one. (If i got that right the new versions of udev just handle those devices directly, but i don't know enough about udev for that info to help me).

So that's the problem. I can't add options to the xorg.conf, because it has no entry for my device and i can't use tools like xsetwacom, because i don't use the wacom drivers (and it's not a wacom).
I tried to use those drivers and utilities, and there was some entry in the xorg.conf part i've seen in the wiki for the company which made my tablet (Waltop), but it didn't worke with those drivers.

Has anyone a neat trick to fine-tune the configuration of my device?

Thank everyone
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Last edited by lvomrm (2011-12-22 09:43:13)

RichAustin

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From: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 186

Re: [unsolved] I want to tweak my tablet, I need to modify my xorg.conf.

You didn't put what model, or any real information, so I did a search in Google "waltop configuration" and it came back with a load of results:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=waltop%20configuration&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np

Right at the top is this one:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=Waltop_Tablet_Set_Up#Waltop_Tablet_Configuration

Which seems to tell you how to set it up to use the Wacom driver.

Any chance, if you post again, you can actually provide some information and have a look on Google yourself first? If you don't know how, and  I am serious here, just ask how to run a search.

Last edited by RichAustin (2011-12-14 23:15:10)

lvomrm

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Registered: 2011-12-13

Posts: 4

Re: [unsolved] I want to tweak my tablet, I need to modify my xorg.conf.

Hi again

I see what i did there... sorry, i should have made my self clearer.

I didn't post real information because i wrote the post without acces to the tablet, that was stupid.

And my problem is not, that it doesn't work or that i can't get the wacom driver working (which i don't really want). But more that i would like to have an entry for my tablet in the xorg.conf.

But first some information:

lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 172f:0505 Waltop International Corp. 

now my xorg.conf only has an entry for the keyboard and one for the mouse, fairly generic, i made no changes there.

further inside the x11 directory the "10-evdev.conf" hold the following lines (among others):

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

I guess this is what makes my tablet work.

So the solution for the threshold-problem (as well as other tweaks) should be to insert lines like "option "threshold" "50"" into the right section of my xorg.conf, but as there is no such entry there. And I am not sure how i could put that entry in there manually (like what driver does it use? what it's name etc), and I am not sure if I should insert something like that in there manually.

lvomrm

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Registered: 2011-12-13

Posts: 4

Re: [unsolved] I want to tweak my tablet, I need to modify my xorg.conf.

sorry to bump this, but I can't imagine that there is no one who knows his way around the xorg.conf or the way udev workes...