[Solved] Wacom tablet and X.Org 7.4

JonathanArcher · 2008-12-01 20:01:14

I'm not really sure where to post this, but since I still consider myself a newbie, I just post it here

Just upgraded to the 7.4 xorg and now I have some issues with my wacom tablet. As I have seen in another topic (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60018 #2), I am not the only one with problems, so maybe someone knows a solution to the problem?

So far I have used the linuxwacom 0.80 package, as described in the wiki. After xorg update the tablet seems to be recognized as a normal mouse, there is no relative movement possible with the pen. I tried upgrading to the latest package in AUR (0.81) and interestingly everything works fine until I start to click something, then the bug that is described in the wiki happens and it doesn't work anymore.
I also tried turning on the hotpluggin function of xorg, but as I expected it, it didn't work (well, you gotta try the last straw).

So... any other ideas? Or simply wait for a corrected linuxwacom package? Is it corrected in the latest ones? I googled for the problem, but found only topics where people report this problem, but I found no solution.

Last edited by JonathanArcher (2008-12-01 20:54:06)

JonathanArcher · 2008-12-01 20:51:01

Just solved it by myself (so proud right now!), for anyone else who has problems with it:
Install the package 0.8.0-3 from the linuxwacom homepage. If you're using yaourt like me you would just have to reinstall the linuxwacom package and edit the original pkgbuild in the following lines:

pkgver=0.8.0

pkgrel=3

Source=(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.tar.bz2
        10-wacom.rules)

md5sums=('629698976f9eb7d861802b22669c5aee'
         '02d3262b7dd10791b0c74abbaac1b933')

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel"

I hope I didn't forget anything, works for me at least right now after I reinstalled it.

Oh yeah, and of course edit your pacman.conf so pacman doesn't look for updates for this package.

Last edited by JonathanArcher (2008-12-01 20:53:28)

syntaxerrormmm · 2008-12-01 22:06:53

Well, just updated linuxwacom with AUR version (0.8.1-6, PKGBUILD needs to be updated by hand as indicated in the package page) and all is fine. The new version should also fix some stability issues on my X41... let's see...

Thanks for reporting the problem, I've seen you post before the upgrade to 7.4 so I was pretty aware of some malfunctioning...

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#1 2008-12-01 20:01:14

[Solved] Wacom tablet and X.Org 7.4

#2 2008-12-01 20:51:01

Re: [Solved] Wacom tablet and X.Org 7.4

#3 2008-12-01 22:06:53

Re: [Solved] Wacom tablet and X.Org 7.4

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