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[darrenforster99]

I currently have two versions of Linux on my laptop - Slackware and Puppy.

Puppy runs from the Live CD, but Slackware runs from the hard drive. I prefer to use Puppy at the moment as there seems to be some kind of fault with my hard drive (it goes through a stage where it will constantly be accessing the hard drive for about 10 minutes, and during that time it just slows the computer down to a crawl - I don't know whether it's because I'm using Ext4 on the HDD, or because it's Slackware 64-bit or whether it's a fault on the hard drive - the laptop is about 8 years old!)

Anyway so because of this I'm trying mainly to run Puppy rather than Slackware.

In Slackware when I first plugged in the Wacom the drivers appeared to be there as Modprobe Wacom worked fine and when moving the pen over the tablet the blue light lit up a bit brighter to indicate it had detected movement, however on screen the mouse had no movement what so ever.

For Slackware I downloaded the files to compile and install the latest Wacom project and after that the tablet started working fine. It created a file in xorg.conf.d and everything.

Now I've followed your instructions for Puppy, installing both Pet files.

I went into the xorg folder, however I had no directory there called xorg.conf.d, so I just created it, and for the wacom file I just copied it from Slackware (well if it works fine in Slackware on the same machine I presume it will work fine in Puppy?)

Restarted the X Server

Nothing,

Restarted the computer

Nothing

What am I doing wrong?

One thing I did notice was that the configuration files for drivers in this version of Puppy don't appear to be in the xorg.conf.d folder (as there wasn't one there at all), the other device information all seems to be contained within one file called xorg.conf - including information about the Synaptics touchpad on this laptop. Is that where I need to copy the information about Wacom to?

I'd really like to use this tablet in Puppy, please can you let me know if this is possible

The tablet is a Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL-470/K and I'm running Puppy Linux Lucid 5.28, running Kernel 2.6.33.2

X version is

X.Org X Server 1.7.6
Release Date: 2010-03-17
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-25-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.33.2 #1 SMP Thu May 27 10:56:32 EST 2010 i686
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Build Date: 23 April 2010 05:11:50PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7 (Bryce Harrington <bryce@ubuntu.com>)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4

[charlie6]

@darrenforster99,
Hi !
for lucid 5.28 you need:
- the input-wacom kernel driver (i.e. wacom.ko ... is already present in the lucid-5.28 iso --> so nothing to do ...! )
- the Xorg wacom driver xf86-input_k.2.6.33_lucid-wacom-0.17.0.pet to be downloaded here (see page 19 this thread)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16491&start=270

- to run xorgwizard to create a xorg.conf file that is specific to your system (so you will get have a new xorg.conf file containing the needed sections for wacom use --> see below);
- edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get it adequately configured (there are a lot of literature in this thread about that)
just copy and paste the following codes in xorg.conf
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16491&start=255

Do not forget to restart X to activate the xorg.conf settings once edited ... (if X does not display as expected, there might be some syntax error while editing xorg.conf ....so making a back-up copy (called xorg.confcopy for instance) of the working xorg.conf file should be advised... ...that can be reactivated once in command line mode using

[don570]

While using the new French language edition
ToOpPy "Precise" 5.4.3 bêta - 2PDE

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83566

I discovered that it is important to not exchange xorg.conf files
between distros. I foolishly tried to drag an xorg.conf file from
Racy into this Precise clone and found that the file was reformed
each time I restarted XWindow.

So the advice of Charlie6 above should be take seriously.

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[don570]

I was able to compile the wacom driver for Pemasu's Raring distro .
Kernel 3.8.4

You can check the kernel number by typing

[don570]

I compiled a Wacom driver for Wheezy by Pemasu

I used strippkg to make the applications smaller.

Edited: corrected rules location ---> doesn't seem to matter

Warning: set up for mtpaint ----> set 'stylus' as last tool

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[charlie6]

Hi don570,
many thanks for keeping this driver up to date !
I'll get a try.
Charlie

last edited:
... got a try ...here on wheezy-3.5.2.5 (having wacom-0.15.0 version driver in it)
i cannot get this version 20.0 running (have restarted X etc...):
-lsmod reports wacom driver loaded
-xsetwacom --list lists all wacom device are identified;
-Xorg.0.log reports

[don570]

I'll check tonite. I must have rushed making the package if I selected the
wrong place for the rules.

The only thing different was using 'strippkg' to make the apps smaller
to get to 250k.

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[don570]

I've spotted a bug in the most recent Wheezy and latest Precise by
Barry Kauler as well. The last tool that is set must be the 'stylus'
(See image) As long as it is the last tool that is set then everything
is fine with mtpaint. (the version of mtpaint doesn't matter).

You can see in image that the last tool set is noted at the top of window.
It should actually say the device is a Wacom tablet. So something
is wrong.



You spotted the error in my package rules location
but it doesn't seem to matter anyway.
I put together the package the right way and got same
result.

Another thing I noticed is that the kernel number doesn't seem to matter.
That is once a driver for Precise is compiled it will run on the various
kernel versions of Precise that are available. So I was able to
get your dpup version to run on Barry Kauler's latest beta precise.

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[charlie6]

Hi don570,
i retried that new xf86-input driver and here i get again the same behaviour.
Except that now i get it working in mtpaint.

But:

1. the mouse cursor does not move as expected: when stylus is lifted far away from tablet pad, then the mouse cursor moves to the upper-left display corner or upper-up side of the corner; here cannot get the cursor to stay were it was before lifting the stylus...
2. i am using a bamboo-pen MTE-450; rhight and left click are integrated in the pens -or stylus - button. Now, with 0.20.0 driver, i have no right-click function. Only the left-click.

I tried with another setting in xorg.conf (i.e. CursorProx set to 100; as also setting to Absolute mode) but no change.
I even compiled 0.21.0 ... same behaviour ..!

So i keep running version 0.15.0 here (maybe depends on my hardware ...i should report to linuxwacomproject).

Do you get something else?
Charlie

last edited:
i went to compile xf86-input-wacom versions 0.15.0 (which gives a 457KB wacom_drv.so), 0.16.0, 0.17.0; 0.18.0 is reported as buggy on linuxwacom website; and 0.21.0.
Versions above 0.17.0 on my "trunk" present the above described behaviours 1. and 2.

last last edited: i posted this description on linuxwacomproject ...

[charlie6]

Hi don570,
i have made the present script a few month ago (maybe one year ago ...don't remind anymore);
it is aimed to automatize the population of the xf86-input_k.x.x.x-YYYY-wacom-0.VV.0 folder that will be dir2pet'ed.
About 30minutes here to get a pet ...and maybe even less ...
It is not 100% finished, but it allows populating the folder and avoiding some trivials errors.

The how-to-use-comments are inside the script.

Given ...of course . .. without any warranty nor after sales support ... ...
Feel free to improve it the way you want !
note: remove the fake .tar.gz extension to get the script

[don570]

Version .15 of driver worked well for me. The same results as version .20

I'll try compiling version .21

Gimp 2.8.4 is a bit buggy when using 'file save' dialog boxes.
They freeze up and I have to close the box and try again.

I don't know if I should blame gimp or wacom or kernel
for that problem.

... but the dialog boxes work more consistently if I use a mouse
when I want to save an image.

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[charlie6]

Hi don570,
would you mind trying the following version 0.21.0?

WARNING: this has neen xz compressed just for size fitting: DOWNLOAD AND RENAME THE FAKE .tar.gz extension to .txz. Then click on it to install it. One might also use the right-click txz2pet conversion to get a classical .pet file.

thanks for feedbacks
charlie