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tpb

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From: Pittsburgh, PA

Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 17

Xorg7 + Wacom now works

Working with Gimp, I use a Wacom Graphire USB tablet. After moving to Xorg7, it did not work anymore. Reason is that the xf86-input-wacom module is missing in the xorg7 distro. Here is how I got it working again.

1. I have downloaded the latest stable 0.7.2 linux wacom driver from the Linux Wacom Project (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/). After unpacking, I copied wacom_drv.so from ~/linuxwacom-0.7.2/prebuilt to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input. In the kernel26 distro, there is already a wacom.ko module, so no need to compile that from the Linux Wacom Project.

2. I have built the utillities for wacom and used the compiled wacdump utility to find out to which /dev/input/event# my tablet was connected to. To do that, run

wacdump /dev/input/event{0|1|2|3|...}

until it shows Graphire etc. and dumps raw data from the tablet). On my machine, it appeared to be /dev/input/event3.

3. In the xorg7 configuration file, I added the configuration for cursor, pen and eraser.

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Identifier  "cursor"
        Option      "Device"          "/dev/input/event3"
        Option      "Type"            "cursor"
        Option      "USB"             "on"
        Option      "Vendor"          "WACOM"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Identifier  "stylus"
        Option      "Device"          "/dev/input/event3"
        Option      "Type"            "stylus"
        Option      "USB"             "on"
        Option      "Vendor"          "WACOM"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Identifier  "eraser"
        Option      "Device"          "/dev/input/event3"
        Option      "Type"            "eraser"
        Option      "USB"             "on"
        Option      "Vendor"          "WACOM"
EndSection

Maybe xf86-input-wacom can be included in the future?

bunnyhugh

Member

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 21

Re: Xorg7 + Wacom now works

Working with Gimp, I use a Wacom Graphire USB tablet. After moving to Xorg7, it did not work anymore. Reason is that the xf86-input-wacom module is missing in the xorg7 distro. Here is how I got it working again.

1. I have downloaded the latest stable 0.7.2 linux wacom driver from the Linux Wacom Project (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/). After unpacking, I copied wacom_drv.so from ~/linuxwacom-0.7.2/prebuilt to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input. In the kernel26 distro, there is already a wacom.ko module, so no need to compile that from the Linux Wacom Project.

2. I have built the utillities for wacom and used the compiled wacdump utility to find out to which /dev/input/event# my tablet was connected to. To do that, run

wacdump /dev/input/event{0|1|2|3|...}

until it shows Graphire etc. and dumps raw data from the tablet). On my machine, it appeared to be /dev/input/event3.

3. In the xorg7 configuration file, I added the configuration for cursor, pen and eraser.

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Identifier  "cursor"
        Option      "Device"          "/dev/input/event3"
        Option      "Type"            "cursor"
        Option      "USB"             "on"
        Option      "Vendor"          "WACOM"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Identifier  "stylus"
        Option      "Device"          "/dev/input/event3"
        Option      "Type"            "stylus"
        Option      "USB"             "on"
        Option      "Vendor"          "WACOM"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Identifier  "eraser"
        Option      "Device"          "/dev/input/event3"
        Option      "Type"            "eraser"
        Option      "USB"             "on"
        Option      "Vendor"          "WACOM"
EndSection

Maybe xf86-input-wacom can be included in the future?

Thank for this post tpb using the prebuilt wacom_drv.so from the wacom project worked for me also. The pointer was much appreicated.