Re: [DIGImend-users] Tablet diagnostics

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

Hi Javier,

On 06/04/2012 02:12 AM, Javier Gutiérrez wrote:
> I tested the tablet in Krita 2.4, MyPaint 1.0, and GIMP 2.8. I ran into
> two problems. None of the frame buttons worked. At all. Also, there was no
> pressure sensivity. The good thing is that the tablet was recognized as a
> pointer, that is, the tip of the pen worked as a left click, and the
> buttons in it as a right click, and so. Oddly, launching an application
> with the touchpad (I'm on a laptop) made the software to not show any
> output when using the tablet. On the contrary, if I launched, say, Krita,
> using the pen, drawing stuff works (this didn't happen in GIMP).  There
> was something weird, and correct me if I'm wrong, but, shouldn't the
> tablet be detected as "one" pointer? I'm saying this because I tried to
> test input devices in MyPaint, and there were five devices listed as
> "Genius EasyPen M506". After noticing this, I ran 'xinput list', and this
> is the output for the pointer part:
>
> anton@tiefblau ~ $ xinput list
> ⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
> ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=17   [slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ Genius EasyPen M506                       id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ Genius EasyPen M506                       id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ Genius EasyPen M506                       id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ Genius EasyPen M506                       id=13   [slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ Genius EasyPen M506                       id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
>
> Is this normal? Did I do something wrong?

If you did boot the correct kernel, then there is nothing else you could
have done wrong.

However, I noticed that it's me who screwed up, sorry. I forgot to enable
proprietary mode for your tablet - that explains absence of pressure
sensitivity. However, it doesn't explain 5 pointer devices.

Please try installing these packages and rebooting into the updated kernel:

http://ponomarevs.no-ip.org:40404/pub/linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic-digimend_3.2.0-24.37+digimend.5.1+kye2_amd64.deb
http://ponomarevs.no-ip.org:40404/pub/linux-headers-3.2.0-24_3.2.0-24.37+digimend.5.1+kye2_all.deb
http://ponomarevs.no-ip.org:40404/pub/linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic-digimend_3.2.0-24.37+digimend.5.1+kye2_amd64.deb

This version should enable the proprietary mode. If you still see 5 pointer
devices, instead of one keyboard and one pointer, could you please mount
debugfs with "sudo mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug" and send me
the output of "sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/hid/0003\:0458\:500f.*/rdesc"?

Thanks!

Sincerely,
Nick