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pajamaman18

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Registered: 2023-09-07

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[SOLVED] kernel 6.12.10 does not find wacom tablet on sway

I just updated my kernel to 6.12.10.arch1-1 and noticed that sway does not find my wacom tablet.

Rolling back to 6.12.9.arch1-1 fixes it.

Running

swaymsg -t get_inputs

for both versions gives this diff with the old one having these extra lines:

167a168,180
>     "identifier": "1386:890:Wacom_One_by_Wacom_S_Pen",
>     "name": "Wacom One by Wacom S Pen",
>     "type": "tablet_tool",
>     "libinput": {
>       "send_events": "enabled",
>       "accel_speed": 0.0,
>       "accel_profile": "none",
>       "left_handed": "enabled"
>     },
>     "vendor": 1386,
>     "product": 890
>   },
>   {

It does still work as a pointer device, just doesn't seem to show up.

Do I just wait for a new kernel and not update my kernel?
(Also am not entirely sure if this is the correct place to post this)

Last edited by pajamaman18 (2025-01-20 20:25:35)

mackin_cheese

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 6.12.10 does not find wacom tablet on sway

you should report a regression bug

gromit

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 6.12.10 does not find wacom tablet on sway

Is it still an issue with the recently released 6.13 kernel?

sudo pacman -U https://pkgbuild.com/\~gromit/linux-bisection-kernels/linux-mainline-6.13-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Also would you be willing to bisect the issue or test prebuilt kernels for it? I think as 6.12 is the new LTS branch it makes sense to track this down ...

pajamaman18

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Registered: 2023-09-07

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 6.12.10 does not find wacom tablet on sway

It looks like it was something else?? It just went away. It just works after getting home and booting with the 6.12.10 kernel. It also works on the mainline 6.13 kernel.
It looks like I was a bit too fast in reporting this, my bad.

Tbh I have no idea why it didn't find it /work in the first place, might have something to do with getting out of sleep states or some other weird thing with my laptop.

Last edited by pajamaman18 (2025-01-20 20:26:26)

gromit

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel 6.12.10 does not find wacom tablet on sway

Maybe you have forgotten to reboot the device after updating the kernel? This is a common issue and can be detected like so:
compare the kernel versions shown in `uname -r` and `pacman -Q linux` and `file /boot/vmlinuz-linux`