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ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Genius 'Kids Designer' tablet - cursor moves but no presses detected

I got this for my daughter and although it says it only supports windows and mac it is detected automatically when I plug it in and it moves the cursor but it won't register any presses. 

Installing the driver from the AUR didn't help but I kept it because it at least gives me a xorg entry to try and tweak - 70-wizardpen.conf: http://pastebin.com/gZtrbRdf

Here is the relevant section of my Xorg log:  http://pastebin.com/YDsB4yce

Output of lsusb is

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0458:500e KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)

Output of egrep "Name|Handlers" /proc/bus/input/devices is :

N: Name="Genius KidsTablet"
H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event5 
N: Name="Genius KidsTablet"
H: Handlers=kbd event6 

It looks like the evdev driver is being loaded instead of the wizardpen one so I'm figuring the problem is with the wizardpen.conf.

Thanks for any input you guys have.

mvtm

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Registered: 2011-10-23

Posts: 1

Re: Genius 'Kids Designer' tablet - cursor moves but no presses detected

Add to /etc/X11/Xsession.d  file 95-geniuskid containing next line:

xinput set-button-map `xinput list|grep Kids|grep pointer|awk '{print substr($5,4);}'` 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

then reboot

Last edited by mvtm (2011-10-23 09:09:34)

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: Genius 'Kids Designer' tablet - cursor moves but no presses detected

Thanks for trying to help but Arch doesn't use the Xsession.d directory and I can't just place the file in xinitrc.d because it parses scripts not xorg files. 

**edit**
Just making it an executable script and putting it in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d makes it work.  My daughter will be so happy!  Thanks a lot!

Last edited by ctarwater (2011-10-23 16:51:17)