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dodopod

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Registered: 2016-06-08

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[SOLVED] XP-Pen Star 03 drawing tablet stopped working

I have an XP-Pen Star 03 drawing tablet, and up until today, it's been working well. Today, when I plugged it in, the pen doesn't work. It won't move the cursor, and none of the buttons (on the pen) work. The blue status light blinks on when I move the pen close to the tablet, when I start drawing, or when I press a button, so I don't think it's a problem with the pen. I also checked the tablet in jstest (probably an odd program to use for this) and all the buttons on the tablet itself work fine. The last time I ran pacman -Syu was Saturday, and I haven't used the tablet in the meantime, so I think a software update most likely caused the problem.

Last edited by dodopod (2020-03-16 19:41:45)

dodopod

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Registered: 2016-06-08

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Re: [SOLVED] XP-Pen Star 03 drawing tablet stopped working

When I run xinput, I get this:

$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ UC-Logic TABLET 1060N Pen               	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ UC-Logic TABLET 1060N Pad               	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Optical Mouse              	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD                	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD System Control 	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD Consumer Control	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
$ xinput list-props 11
Device 'UC-Logic TABLET 1060N Pen':
	Device Enabled (153):	1
	Coordinate Transformation Matrix (155):	1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
	libinput Left Handed Enabled (286):	0
	libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (287):	0
	libinput Send Events Modes Available (272):	1, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (273):	0, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (274):	0, 0
	Device Node (275):	"/dev/input/event2"
	Device Product ID (276):	21827, 129
$ xinput list-props 12
Device 'UC-Logic TABLET 1060N Pad':
	Device Enabled (153):	1
	Coordinate Transformation Matrix (155):	1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
	libinput Left Handed Enabled (286):	0
	libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (287):	0
	libinput Send Events Modes Available (272):	1, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (273):	0, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (274):	0, 0
	Device Node (275):	"/dev/input/event3"
	Device Product ID (276):	21827, 129

edit: When I run xinput test 12, I get the same thing as jstest -- the buttons on the tablet work, but the pen doesn't register anything. When I run xinput test 11, it doesn't register any input whatsoever.

Last edited by dodopod (2020-03-16 18:34:34)

dodopod

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Registered: 2016-06-08

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] XP-Pen Star 03 drawing tablet stopped working

Okay, I restarted my PC again, and it's working, now. What I did was install xf86-input-evdev and create a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/evdev-tablet.conf with these contents:

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
	MatchIsTablet "on"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "evdev"
EndSection