Comments on Feureau's Den: How to get a Wacom Tablet Fully Working in Ubuntu ...

Brilliant! Thanks so much! My Intuos3 is working w...

2008-08-24T07:29:00.000-04:00

Brilliant! Thanks so much! My Intuos3 is working with all the buttons!

I have one problem:
I use the pen whenever I can in place of a mouse (Due to RSI), but in Ubuntu (7.10), the device is not found unless I olug it in once the desktop has started.

Is there a way to get Gnome to accept this as an input device each time it starts?

Thanks again - great How-To.

Regards

Max

This guide looks awesome. I have tried some other...

2008-07-29T10:40:00.000-04:00

This guide looks awesome. I have tried some other things and now Ubuntu 8.04 is starting in low-graphics mode (800x600) instead of the 1920x1200 is was doing beautifully until i tried to get my Intuos3 working. My xorg.conf is posted here, with some more detail-I'm "juanpecan"

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765915&page=27

Any help is much appreciated.
john.bravodemicoli@gmail.com

Nice article! Maybe this is along the lines of wh...

2008-05-23T13:12:00.000-04:00

Nice article! Maybe this is along the lines of what I have been wanting to do. I have a HP TR-3000, it is a ruggedized tablet computer. I believe that the writing surface is a wacom compatible device. It was delivered with Windows XP Tablet Edition pre-installed and I have been dreaming about changing it to Ubuntu but have not attempted this for several reasons.

- The tablet has no CDROM drive and I cannot see any bootable options to choose USB.
- The XP Tablet edition has a on-screen keyboard and have handwriting recognition. Are there Linux (Ubuntu) equivalents?
- The TR-3000 has a internal WiFi, but I am not sure what chipset it uses to know it will also work with Linux. This is important even though the tablet also has a ethernet port.

Any suggestions?

Will this work for an older RS232/serial Wacom?Reg...

2008-05-08T12:24:00.000-04:00

Will this work for an older RS232/serial Wacom?

Regards...

Well, the guide was made in Gutsy so I know it wor...

2008-04-09T13:33:00.000-04:00

Well, the guide was made in Gutsy so I know it works on my rig. (And at least one other guy's) However, I can't recall where I got my xlibs-dev. It's no longer in the repo, it seems.

You'll have to hunt for your own xlibs. Try this for start.

Good luck. I don't have a ubuntu rig anymore. Switched to a Mac. ^^

No luck. Ubuntu 7.10. No xlibs in repositories.I d...

2008-04-09T12:04:00.000-04:00

No luck. Ubuntu 7.10. No xlibs in repositories.

I do have the intuos3 working but no expresskeys.

Thanks for your great effort.

Casimir Pohjanraito

Hi!I'm glad everything worked out alright for you!...

2008-03-04T01:11:00.000-05:00

Hi!
I'm glad everything worked out alright for you! ^^

Anyway, this work is licensed under CC 3.0 By-NC-SA unported, so you can do anything with it, just adhere to the requirement of the license. (like all free licenses does) ^^

Enjoy!

*I forgot to include this in my previous post, but...

2008-03-03T22:25:00.000-05:00

*I forgot to include this in my previous post, but you be willing to allow me the privilege of posting this on the Ubuntuforums.org website to help others having trouble?

Hello Feureau,I used sudo ./configure, then sudo m...

2008-03-03T21:59:00.000-05:00

Hello Feureau,

I used sudo ./configure, then sudo make, and then sudo make install and everything worked like you said it would! I just had to configure everything in The GIMP and on the desktop to get things the way I wanted them to by using the instructions in the USAGE file and the intuos3s.conf1 file.

Thank you very much for your help. You have made my tablet experience much easier and finally complete after searching for a tutorial like this for four months.

Thankful Linux User,

Brandon

ShadowMKII @ ubuntuforums.org

Yeah, you need root privilege. Otherwise, just use...

2008-03-03T16:43:00.000-05:00

Yeah, you need root privilege. Otherwise, just use sudo make install. ^^

Hello,Thank you very much for your quick response!...

2008-03-02T16:13:00.000-05:00

Hello,

Thank you very much for your quick response!

I did as you said and installed the packages through Synaptic Package Manager. I then followed your instructions and got to the part where I am told to do "make install" and I got the same error.

I did not input the "PressCurve" part of the code into the xorg.conf file and there seemed to be no negative effect. I do not know if that would compromise the installation at all.

Anyhow, here is what I got in my terminal instead - maybe this will help.

jordi@Shadow-Slate:~/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1'
Making all in src-expresskeys
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1/src-expresskeys'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1/src-expresskeys'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1'
jordi@Shadow-Slate:~/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1$ make install
Making install in src-expresskeys
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1/src-expresskeys'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1/src-expresskeys'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/bin"
/usr/bin/install -c 'expresskeys' '/usr/local/bin/expresskeys'
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/expresskeys': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1/src-expresskeys'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jordi/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1/src-expresskeys'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
jordi@Shadow-Slate:~/Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1$

The parts that I followed of your instructions were those that were numbered, if that helps at all. I think/thought that was all that I had to follow. I do not know why there is an "access denied" section towards the middle and end of the "make install" section, but there is. Could this be an administration problem on my computer? Do I have to be root to change this?

Anyhow, thank you again for your quick response and your help - it is greatly appreciated!

Hi, Brandon, thanks for the compliments. ^^ A fail...

2008-02-29T17:18:00.000-05:00

Hi, Brandon, thanks for the compliments. ^^

A failure in make install means you've failed to satisfy the dependencies.

From the INSTALL file included in Expresskeys-0.4.1:

Make sure that the dependencies for compiling this program are met. Apart from
the normal libraries and header files used for any program development, we need
what loosely can be called an "X development environment". Specifically the
following libraries must be available for linking: libX11.so libXext.so libXi.so
and libXtst.so Header files from X that we must be able to include are:
X11/Xlib.h X11/Xutil.h X11/extensions/XInput.h X11/extensions/XIproto.h
and X11/extensions/XTest.h

Some distributions do not provide this environment by default and therefore
require additional packages to be installed before compiling. Example names
from one distribution are libxi-dev and libxtst-dev for the xinput and xtest
packages.

Example: A "beginner-friendly" distribution like Ubuntu lacks practically
every development package needed for program compilation, in the default
installation. What must to be done, in eg Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is:

1) Start the Adept package manager and click on the icon to update the list
of available packages - otherwise you won't find the ones we need.

2) Search for libc6-dev and mark it (linux-libc-dev will also get marked).
These packages are required for any C-program compilation.

3) Search for and mark xorg-dev (MANY additional packages will get marked).
This metapackage contains the rest of our requirements - and more.

4) Install.

Good luck! ^^

Hello,Your guide is much better than any other I h...

2008-02-29T17:10:00.000-05:00

Hello,

Your guide is much better than any other I have come across. I still have a problem, however.

My tablet's pressure sensitivity was not working before, so I followed a tutorial elsewhere to get that working. Ever since then, my Wacom Intuos3 Expresskeys have not been configured and I have had a hard time finding acceptable tutorials. Now that I have found this one and went as far as I could, I got stuck at the part where I am told to "make install" in the terminal.

When I do "make install" I get a lot of error codes and then I return to my terminal under Desktop/expresskeys-0.4.1. I tried editing out some of the code that I had in a bit more so than my last attempt that had error messages (since there was code already there from my previous tutorial) with what you told me to do and I came across even more trouble, where my monitor was in low graphics mode until I replaced the new xorg.conf file with the one I saved.

I will send you my xorg.conf file so you can see what I can do to get this working. The choice is yours to help me or not.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Wed Sep 12 14:29:17 PDT 2007

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" #For non-LCD tablets only
InputDevice "pad" #If you have Intuos3/Cintiq 21UX/Graphire4 tablets. It should NOT send core event
EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY
Option "PressCurve" "50,0,100,50"# Custom preference
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY
Option "PressCurve" "50,0,100,50"# Custom preference
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" #USB ONLY
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "Mode" "relative"
Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" #Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "pad"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" #SERIAL ONLY
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" #USB ONLY
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on" #USB ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28.0 - 51.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Thank you for your time!