Re: [DIGImend-users] Aiptek Media Tablet 14000u worked instantly (and almost complete) in linux 3.3.2

[Nikolai K. <sp...@gm...>]

Hi Eduardo, Dave,

On 04/29/2012 06:19 AM, Favux ... wrote:
> The GNOME Wacom Graphics Tablet applet in System Settings will
> override these options anyway.  Check its settings and change them to
> what you want.  I'm wondering if that was what was causing the problem
> in the first place.  Because I don't recall anyone reporting all
> stylus buttons set to Button1 1 before, so something funky is going
> on.  Maybe Fedora has introduced a bug by inadvertently setting the
> gnome-settings-daemon key values wrong for the two stylus side
> buttons.  And the scroll wheels should work with this setup, i.e.
> being on evdev.

To me this side button behavior looks as though, for some reason, the kernel
didn't use the Waltop-specific driver, but used the generic HID driver
instead. However, the presence of four event devices shows that the correct
kernel driver is used. Were they seen at the time the buttons didn't work?

The wheels and mode buttons should work, but may need some configuration.

The scroll mode may require the following snippet to be placed into the
X.org configuration:

Section "InputClass"
     Identifier          "evdev waltop scroll"
     MatchIsPointer      "off"
     MatchIsKeyboard     "off"
     MatchIsTablet       "off"
     MatchIsTouchpad     "off"
     MatchIsTouchscreen  "off"
     MatchProduct        "WALTOP"
     MatchDevicePath     "/dev/input/event*"
     Driver              "evdev"
EndSection

This forces the corresponding event device, which has scrolling only and
isn't qualified by X.org as any specific device type, to be handled by
evdev.

The zoom mode may require configuring key bindings in applications as most
of them don't recognize zooming key codes.

The volume mode, OTOH, should just work.

Regarding the "virtual" buttons located on the tablet surface, we are not
intending to support them, because their usefulness is limited. When using
the tablet you need to look at the screen, but to hit these buttons you need
to look at the tablet, because it's hard to locate them otherwise. This
makes you loose concentration.

Sincerely,
Nick