Re: [DIGImend-devel] Genius PenSketch 12x9 in Ubuntu Precise (12.04)

[Favux ... <fav...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Viktoria S. <vik...@fr...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have couple of suggestions. See bellow:
>
> "Favux ..." <fav...@gm...> írta:
>>Hi Nick,>
>>
> I have a Genius PenSketch 12x9 user on Ubuntu forums.  Originally he>
> was using Natty (11.04) and wanted to modify his tablet's aspect>
> ratio.  We figured that out.  Then he upgraded to Precise (12.04)>
> because he wanted to install the new Gimp 2.8 over the default Gimp>
> 2.6.
>
> As far as I know the default gimp in precise is 2.6, how did he installed gimp 2.8? He compiled it or installed from a custom repository? (2.8 Gimp default in Quantal 12.10 which is in alpha state.)
>
> It appears the pen may be on the third event which may be why the pen>
> isn't working in Gimp 2.8.  It still has the issue/bug Viktoria.S>
> described where it is showing one input device, namely "9x12 Tablet">
> in its Configure Extended Input Devices dropdown.  Because by happy>
> chance the pen was the first device Vicktoria.S reported things were>
> OK for drawing even so.  I can't explain how the pen event changed>
> from the first to third for the PenSketch if that is what happened.>
> Maybe the updates?>
>
> Well. I could not figured this out (I mean the device list.). I have got a "specially" compiled gimp 2.8 and on that the pen is the 2nd mousepen on the list, but if I start gimp 2.6 or mypaint the pen is the 1st mousepen on the device list (I am using 12.04 64bit digimended kernel). (Actually the pen got device id 17, and the mouse got 18......)
>
> I can suggest couple of things:
> 1. Install mypaint from the repositories. Configure the pen in mypaint and see if he can draw with the pen there. (At least in this way we can check if there is everything ok with the pen or not.)
> 2. Compile gimp 2.8 on the way I have suggested and on the device list enable only the pen.
> 3. Maybe he can try to use the wacom driver. As far as I know the wacom driver ads the word stylus to the name of the pen so in this way everything or almost everything gets a unique name. So there could not be a problem with gimp 2.8. (I am thinking about trying to use the wacom driver on 12.10 too, but only after the kernel has been update to 3.5 stable and I can configure the Oracle VM perfectly with that kernel. Later I can give feedback if I was successfull with it or not.)
>
> Good luck guys!

Thanks Viktoria S.,

We did MyPaint and his pen does work in it.

I'm pretty sure he installed from this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/gimp

So likely he (we) would need to be talked through the Gimp compile
after making the fixes you suggest in the bug report.

We could try xf86-input-wacom but that doesn't excite me at this time.
 What I would like to do is to come up with a way to differentiate the
input devices through udev so Gimp lists them all.

Favux