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ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Wacom tablet

I have a Wacom tablet that used to work in my system when I was running Slackware.
It's an older serial connection model (not the usb type of these days) but it used to work just fine.
Today I tried to set it up again in my Arch system but it does not work.
I did some seachring and found this article in the Wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tos … _tablet_pc) 
then I sat up all the sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as per that article but  nothing happens.

I noticed that there is no /etc/rc.d/wacom module so I assume that all the lifting has to be done by the xorg.conf file.

I also noticed that the wacom driver I downloaded via pacman seems to be USB oriented, does this make a difference or is this a serial/USB type of drive?

Is it even possible to run the serial tablet in Arch?
I've gone to Google but all the info seems to be USB oriented ... doesn't any one use old tablets any more   :cry:
Any ideas, would be appreciated.

mutze13

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From: germany

Registered: 2006-05-06

Posts: 107

Re: Wacom tablet

I think that the standart-settings for serial tablets should work.
I didn't know about the wiki article so I setup my tablet like mentioned here.
There are settings for serial tablets too.
Here is my config for the usb-tablet. Maybe you can adapt it for your needs.

Section "ServerLayout"
    ...
    InputDevice    "cursor" "AlwaysCore"
    InputDevice    "stylus" "AlwaysCore"
    InputDevice    "eraser" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

...

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

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

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

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: Wacom tablet

mutze13,
Thanks for the replay.
I'll give it a try too, right now I'm working through the instructions form the Wacom site for a "manual installation", see if I have better luck.
BTW are the "Option "USB"  "on" needed in a serial tablet sine I'm not reading form the USB port?