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Tiigon

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Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 65

Wacom tablet problems... [SOLVED]

So I got my new Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) and tried to get in working in Arch. I tried all the methods here, but with no success. I tried pretty much everything in the AUR too, but nothing there worked either.

The most annoying thing is that I was going to get rid of Windows today and start using only Arch (even though I've used Arch 95% of the time for a few months anyway), but I want to be able to use the tablet first.

I'm using 64-bit Arch with kernel version 2.6.32, if that matters.

This is from the log, I guess it's the problem:

(II) config/hal: Adding input device stylus
(II) LoadModule: "wacom"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so
(II) Module wacom: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.3.902, module version = 1.0.0
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
(II) Wacom driver level: 47-0.8.5-4 $
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "stylus"
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)

Any suggestions welcome, I have enough time to try them

Last edited by Tiigon (2010-01-21 13:06:16)

shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 341

Re: Wacom tablet problems... [SOLVED]

I spent all of last night trying to get my new Bamboo P&T working on Arch. Ended up I just didnt read the output from the package.
I used the http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31540 package. All I had to do in the end to get it working was to run the update-kernel-modules.sh script that comes in the Tarball from AUR and its all working... cept Im left handed so now Im trying to figure out how to flip the damn thing.

Tiigon

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Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 65

Re: Wacom tablet problems... [SOLVED]

Thanks, I'll try it when I have time (it's 1:55am here right now, I'm going to sleep)

Last edited by Tiigon (2010-01-20 23:55:21)

Tiigon

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Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 65

Re: Wacom tablet problems... [SOLVED]

Works perfectly, thanks very much for help.

shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 341

Re: Wacom tablet problems... [SOLVED]

No worries. Just on the off chance that anyone is a lefty and has the p&t like me. I got the rotate working by using the Ubuntu patches from here...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1321238

And then updated the PKGBUILD to use linuxwacom-0.8.5-9.tar.bz2 instead of the -2 one. I also had to remove 2 of the diffs to make it compatable with the ubuntu patch (wacom_***.c.diff). Then I had to change the kernel version from 2.6.28 to 2.6.27 in the update-kernel-drivers.sh script.

Last edited by shazeal (2010-01-21 19:54:01)

johanbcn

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Registered: 2010-01-03

Posts: 20

Re: Wacom tablet problems... [SOLVED]

Great! Works perfectly with my bamboo fun.

Cheers