Wacom Tablet CTL-470 not working

IllDepence · 2011-12-24 23:00:41

Hi there,

I hope my problem isn't one that, in the end, should better have been posted in the "Newbie Corner". I'm new to Arch Linux (used Ubuntu for a year, installed Arch two days ago) and I'm new to tablets (got mine today). Anyway, here's were I'm stuck:

I'm using Arch Linux (i686) with X11 and the awesome wm. I'm trying to get a Wacom Bamboo Pen (Model: CTL-470) working. (The tablet itself seems to be working fine. The blue LED is on and gets brighter when the pen hovers over it.)

First I followed this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom_Tablet

As described, I tried the autodetection first.
I installed xf86-input-wacom (sudo pacman -S xf86-input-wacom) which worked fine (btw.: I'm going to add what exactly I did in the terminal, maybe I just did a newbie mistake), rebooted, started X, but moving the pen over the tablet didn't cause the cursor to move.
So I moved on to "Dynamic Xorg setup with udev". I installed udev (sudo pacman -S udev) or reinstalled it, since I'm using X Server 1.11.3 and ran lsusb. This gives me, among other things, my mouse as well as the tablet:
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 056a:00dd Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 046d:c01e Logitech, Inc. MX518 Optical Mouse
Then I created the "10-local.rules" file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with the mentioned udev rules:
KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="056a", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/wacom"
KERNEL=="mouse*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="046d", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/mouse_udev"
To restart udev I wanted to use "udevadm control restart" but from that I get unknown option. Searching the man file of udevadm I found "udevadm control --reload-rules" which seems to work (gives no output to the terminal). I checked /dev/input but there was no mouse_udev or wacom. Thinking that maybe "udevadm control --reload-rules" didn't work I rebooted. While booting I got two warnings/notifications that said "unknown key 'SYSFS{idVendor}' [...]", invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules:1'" and accordingly for the second rule with idProduct. Of course nothing canged in /dev/input. I googled a bit and found, that some people were having problems with SYSFS aswell and instead used ATTR, so I replaced SYSFS with ATTR in both rules. The warnings while booting disappeared but there still was nothing new in /dev/input. I tried to help myself by reading http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html but I guess I'm currently lacking skills to really being able to use that information to solve my problem.

Here in the forums I found the following thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131831
killgriff, creator of this thread, seems to have been in the very same position then I am now.
"lsusb | grep Wacom" gives me
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 056a:00dd Wacom Co., Ltd
"lsmod | grep wacom" results in
wacom 27924 0
usbcore 120796 5 wacom,uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd
Following the post of n0dl I tried to obtain the xf86-input-wacom-git package from the AUR. I did yaourt -S xf86-input-wacom-git, didn't edit the PKGBUILD and chose to continue building. It starts building but then I get an error:
==> Starting build...
Cloning into '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-tarek/aur-xf86-input-wacom-git/src/xf86-input-wacom-build'...
done.
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
configure.ac:39: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:40: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build xf86-input-wacom-git.
==> Restart building xf86-input-wacom-git ? [y/N]
==> ---------------------------------------------
==>

So ... I'm suck. I'd be really happy if someone could help me with this.

IllDepence

/edit:

Okay, to at least not bump this thread unnecessarily I'm going to edit in the solution.

The solution that worked for me was, in the end, the one mentioned above from another thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131831
I just hadn't understood it right. With great help from some guys form #archlinux.de I then managed to do it.
My problem, as described above, was, that I could not install the xf86-input-wacom-git package from the AUR. Problem was, that, BEFORE you install the package, you have to patch it. I missunderstood the instruction "First obtain the xf86-input-wacom-git package from the AUR" you have to download the package, not install it. Important note: don't download the tarball or pkgbuild (which is what I did at first ^^) but the package itself: if I remember right the command was git clone git://linuxwacom.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/linuxwacom/xf86-input-wacom
And well ... this does the job. Download the package, patch it, follow the further instructions given ... done. My tablet now works perfectly. : )

Last edited by IllDepence (2011-12-29 18:56:07)

bernarcher · 2011-12-25 23:07:58

Hello IllDepence and welcome to the Arch forums.

Just note, it is not our usual policy to delete a thread. Have a look at the Forum Rules esp. at our Forum Etiquette.

Just keep to it and try to understand what you had to do. There are some other Wacom related threads in the forums which might help with this. And don't forget to tell us what conclusion you came to. Even if you only repeat the hints you got on IRC.

Remember: "Help is a two-way road." Please don't be a "Help Vampire".

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#1 2011-12-24 23:00:41

Wacom Tablet CTL-470 not working

#2 2011-12-25 23:07:58

Re: Wacom Tablet CTL-470 not working

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