choosing Wacom tablet

Ilya · 2007-12-15 03:13:53

I'm going to buy Wacom Intuos3 tablet. I don't know: A5 or 'A5 Wide'...

Please, help me to understand:
1) How A5 (non-wide) will work on wide screen displays (16:10)?
2) How 'A5 Wide' will work on non-wide screen displays (4:3, 5:4)?
3) What screen size related options i can change with linuxwacom?

And some additional questions, please:
4) How this tablet (Intuos3) works without linuxwacom driver (only with Kernel driver)?
5) Is latest linuxwacom from AUR works fine for you now?
6) What editor do you prefer, except GIMP ?

P.S. Sorry for my russian english.

Last edited by Ilya (2008-04-27 16:14:56)

whompus · 2007-12-15 10:53:38

I have a graphire 3

1) It will work but if you draw a circle on the tablet it will appear oval on the screen to get round this you need to set the TopX, TopY, BottomX, BottomY co-ordinates to match your screen size so in effect you will lose some area at the top/bottom of the tablet depending on how you set it up.
2) I think it will work similar to above so you need to set the co-ordinates to match the screen again.
3) Don't know. I've set mine in xorg.conf
4) Don't know
5) There are some issues with the latest xorg but works fine for what I need.
6) GIMP only to correct/change my photos I'm just a hobbyist.

Ilya · 2007-12-18 00:59:55

You can congratulate me Now i'm not so happy user of Wacom Intuos3 A5 Wide...

My Xorg crashes with latest linuxwacom driver (0.7.9-4).

Maybe i do something wrong?

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

...
Section "InputDevice"
    Driver        "wacom"
    Identifier    "stylus"
    Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/event6"
    Option        "Type"        "stylus"
    Option        "USB"        "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Driver        "wacom"
    Identifier    "eraser"
    Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/event6"
    Option        "Type"        "eraser"
    Option        "USB"        "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Driver        "wacom"
    Identifier    "cursor"
    Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/event6"
    Option        "Type"        "cursor"
    Option        "USB"        "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Driver        "wacom"
    Identifier    "pad"
    Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/event6"
    Option        "Type"        "pad"
    Option        "USB"        "on"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Main Layout"
    Screen        "Main Screen"
    InputDevice    "Logitech Mouse"    "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Logitech Keboard"    "CoreKeyboard"

    InputDevice    "stylus"        "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "eraser"        "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "cursor"        "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "pad"
EndSection
...

Xorg.0.log

...
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
pad Wacom X driver grabbed event device
(==) Wacom using pressure threshold of 61 for button 1
(==) Wacom USB Intuos3 tablet speed=9600 maxX=54204 maxY=31750 maxZ=1023 resX=5080 resY=5080  tilt=enabled
(==) Wacom device "pad" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=54204 bottom Y=31750
(==) Wacom device "cursor" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=54204 bottom Y=31750
(==) Wacom device "eraser" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=54204 bottom Y=31750
(==) Wacom device "stylus" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=54204 bottom Y=31750
(--) Logitech Mouse: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Logitech Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80d9fbe]
1: [0xb7f91420]
2: X(ProcXkbLatchLockState+0x23d) [0x8186b7d]
3: X [0x81871fd]
4: X [0x814b5be]
5: X(Dispatch+0x2bf) [0x808c97f]
6: X(main+0x48b) [0x8073e8b]
7: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7d69390]
8: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x209) [0x8073201]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Ilya · 2007-12-18 06:13:04

BTW, i'm not alone

This bug were found on Debian bug-track! There is a workaround.

I have started my X-session by that way:

~/.xinitrc
---------------------
numlockx
exec startxfce4

~/.bash_profile
---------------------
startx

Then Xorg crashes...

Now i just run startxfce4 from .bash_profile, Xorg works, Wacom works!

whompus · 2007-12-18 16:14:04

I've never had any lockups from the wacom driver but I'm using xdm-archlinux as my display manager with xfce4 and do not use numlock as I have a mini keyboard which does not have a separate number pad.

In xorg.conf I was getting some problems with the event that was assigned to the tablet changing which made the pen act like a mouse instead of being in absolute mode so it may be worth creating this udev rule

To prevent devices getting reordered on bootup create a udev rule called
10-wacom.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with the following line

KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="056a", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/wacom"

Then in xorg.conf change "/dev/input/event6" to "/dev/input/wacom"

Hope this helps

Last edited by whompus (2007-12-18 16:36:36)

Ilya · 2007-12-23 03:43:11

By the way, numlockx conflicts with linuxwacom driver! When i run numlockx from ~/.xinitrc, from Xfce autorun or form xterm - Xorg crushes!

Also any program started from ~/.xinitrc before startxfce4 causes Xorg crush. So my working ~/.xinitrc now looks like this, nothing else:

#!/bin/sh

#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#

exec startxfce4

Ilya · 2007-12-23 04:04:17

whompus wrote:

To prevent devices getting reordered on bootup create a udev rule called
10-wacom.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with the following line
KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="056a", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/wacom"

Then in xorg.conf change "/dev/input/event6" to "/dev/input/wacom"

That doesn't works, BUT my system always recognize my tablet as /dev/input/event6 O_o It works on each of 4 USB-ports! As i can see from /proc/bus/input/devices - only "Sysfs" item changes, "Handlers" always equal "mouse2 event6 ts2".

Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input12
Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input13
Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input14
Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input15

Last edited by Ilya (2007-12-23 06:03:44)

Ilya · 2007-12-23 04:12:51

For me wacomcpl looks "empty" I can't configure tablet via wacomcpl, but can do it with xsetwacom or xorg.conf

Does wacomcpl (version 0.7.9-4) works for you?

whompus · 2007-12-23 12:52:46

Ilya wrote:

For me wacomcpl looks "empty" I can't configure tablet via wacomcpl, but can do it with xsetwacom or xorg.conf

Does wacomcpl (version 0.7.9-4) works for you?

No I think that is one of the known problems with the driver, my tablet works the way I need so tend to leave things alone.

Sole · 2008-01-04 02:35:18

Workaround seems to work but X still seems to crash when I switch between console and X with ctrl+alt+F1 with wacom plugged in, anyone else can verify this? Because I'm not really sure if it's my wacom or just my settings with twinview.

whompus · 2008-01-04 20:20:28

Just tried ctrl+alt+F1 and no lockups, I used to get some random lockups when I was using the ati driver but have not noticed any problems with catalyst 7.11 driver.

Ilya · 2008-01-06 16:07:35

Sole wrote:

Workaround seems to work but X still seems to crash when I switch between console and X with ctrl+alt+F1 with wacom plugged in, anyone else can verify this? Because I'm not really sure if it's my wacom or just my settings with twinview.

I have no poblems with that (video-driver: nvidia 100.14.19-6).

Last edited by Ilya (2008-01-22 16:48:16)

Ilya · 2008-01-06 16:16:19

I want tablet to plug in after 'startx'. Is it possible to reload linuxwacom driver, while Xorg running?

UPDATE: answer found in linuxwacom FAQ

Last edited by Ilya (2008-01-22 16:19:47)

Ilya · 2008-01-22 16:49:26

Linuxwacom driver (development version) was updated to 0.7.9-6.

1) wacomcpl still doesn't work
2) now Xorg crashes on console switching

I'm going to downgrade package to 0.7.9-4.

UPDATE: in version 0.7.9-7 Xorg-crash-on-console-switching-bug was fixed

Last edited by Ilya (2008-01-26 04:26:24)

whompus · 2008-01-22 17:02:38

I have linuxwacom in the IgnorePkg section of pacman.conf as I find it breaks too often and only update when the tablet stops working.

Ilya · 2008-01-26 06:09:43

How to configure Expresskeys on Intuos3? It seems like expresskeys package doesn't work.

$ expresskeys
expresskeys ERROR: Tablet not attached, OR (in case of Cintiq 21UX, Intuos3
and Graphire4) the 'pad' device has not been specified in xorg.conf, OR is
lacking on the command line when using "named devices".

Can i do it without expresskeys package? For example: assign F12 to Button12
What's wrong?

$ xsetwacom set pad Button11 "core key F11"
X Error: 8 BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Error (22): WacomConfigSetRawParam: failed
Set: Failed to set pad value for 'Button12'

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choosing Wacom tablet

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Re: choosing Wacom tablet

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