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Righard

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-12-13

Posts: 29

Wacom tablet stopped working.

Hello,
I've worked with my Wacom Bamboo tablet for some weeks without any trouble. Two days ago it suddenly stopped working.
I use the linuxwacom-dev package from AUR.
The tablet itself is being detected:

[iisjmii@myhost input]$ lsusb 
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 056a:0069 Wacom Co., Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05ac:0221 Apple, Inc. Keyboard (Aluminium) (ISO)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ac:1006 Apple, Inc. Hub in Aluminum Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I've added the appropriate rule:

[iisjmii@myhost input]$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wacom.rules 
KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="056a", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/wacom"

Xorg loads the wacom driver fine:

[iisjmii@myhost input]$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep wacom
(II) LoadModule: "wacom"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//wacom_drv.so
(II) Module wacom: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

The tablet is present in /dev/input/wacom:

[iisjmii@myhost input]$ ls .
by-id    event0  event2  event4  event6  mice    mouse1  wacom
by-path  event1  event3  event5  event7  mouse0  mouse2

But it simply doesn't work, cat /dev/input, gives nothing. When I touch the tablet with the pen the orange light turn to green as it should. The tablet itself is fine, i've tested it on my girlfriends computer running Ubuntu. Here tablet also doesn't work at my pc.

I run Xorg without a xorg.conf using hotplugging.

Any ideas, might there be a problem with the linuxwacom-dev package? Thanks

[edit] ofcourse cat /dev/input does nothing

Last edited by Righard (2009-06-07 19:11:42)

Righard

Member

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-12-13

Posts: 29

Re: Wacom tablet stopped working.

I now copied the wacom module from my girlfriends ubuntu machine (where the tablet works) to my machine, still nothing... so the module can't be the problem.

Righard

Member

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-12-13

Posts: 29

Re: Wacom tablet stopped working.

Of course the Ubuntu module couldn't work because it was compiled for a different kernel (silly my )
I reinstalled Arch, which made me find out that the module compiled by linuxwacom-dev is screwed, replacing it with the one from Xorg does the trick.

jason_f

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Registered: 2006-08-18

Posts: 78

Re: Wacom tablet stopped working.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by 'the one from Xorg'?
I just got my bamboo..
cant get it to work. I installed linuxwacom-dev and it worked fine but it didnt survive a reboot. I've tried going back to the module thats included with the main kernel but i get nothing..

Tried adding the hal tricks given in another topic here as well..still..nothing..

edit: well, with linuxwacom-cvs installed, then reinstalled the kernel. then using the hal tricks from:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70792

While troubleshooting I installed a file into /etc/hal/fdi/policy called 10-tablet.fdi. With this file I didn't have any pressure sensitivity. Removing that and now its all working.

Last edited by jason_f (2009-06-14 04:43:08)