Re: [DIGImend-users] Huion H610 and Gimp: sometimes strange behaviour

[Christopher B. <chr...@gm...>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:03:22 -0500
Vince Herried <Vi...@Pl...> wrote:

>to set up the buttons you need to do several things.
>first create this file....
>[vince@desk2 ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-huion.conf
>Section "InputClass"
>    Identifier "digimend2 version"
>    MatchIsTablet "on"
>    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>#   use for wacom driver
>    MatchProduct "PenTablet"
>    Driver "wacom"
>        Option "rotate" "half"
>        #Option         "Button1" "key +Control_L +z -z " # undo
>        #Option         "Button2" "key +Shift_L +e -e "         #
> eraser #Option         "Button3" "key +n -n "          # pencil
>        #Option         "Button8" "key +Shift_L +equal -equal " # zoom
> in #Option "Button9" "key +minus -minus "          # zoom out
>        #Option "Button10" "key +bracketright -bracketright "
> # + pencil
>        #Option "Button11" "key +bracketleft -bracketleft "
> # - pencil
>#       Option  "Button12"              # hand
>#
># end GIMP settings
>#
>
> #   use for evdev
> #   Driver "evdev"
> #      Option "InvertX" "on"
> #      Option "InvertY" "on"
>EndSection
>--------------------------------------------------------ends above
>this line--------------------------------------------------
>note the commented out settings they don't work.
>I have the line
>Option "rotate" "half"
>because I'm left handed, if you are not left handed, leave that out.
>
>
>Then re-start X. There is a setting in the system settings that will
>enable the key combination of ctrl alt backspace to cause X to
>restart.
>I can't find the kde settings at moment where I enabled that key
>combination.  There are several ways to re-start X, search google.
>
>Then copy the attached shell script some place and mark it
>executable...;. chmod u+x huion.sh
>
>the script is kind of messy, but it works to set up the buttons on my
>H610.
>
>good luck.
>------------------
>Vince
>
>On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan
><ji...@me...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> first of all: thanks a lot for the driver! I'm on Fedora 20 with
>> 3.18.5-101.fc20.x86_64 kernel, just plugged it in and it worked :)
>>
>> I do however experience some glitches now and then and I am not sure
>> if its a problem with the driver or with Gimp.
>>
>> Sometimes when I start Gimp I can not paint using the tablet, i.e.
>> the input devices does not switch to Huion when I'm trying to paint.
>> I can still navigate all menus and clicks on menus and toolboxes
>> work, but painting on the canvas is impossible. When this happens,
>> painting with the mouse is also impossible, while clicks on menus
>> etc. work fine.
>>
>> When this happens I have to quite Gimp, disconnect and reconnect the
>> tablet and start Gimp again and chances are high that it will just
>> start working again.
>>
>> Any ideas how to debug this?
>>
>> Second thing that I noticed is that it's sometimes recognized
>> differently in Gimp. When selecting the tablet in the input devices
>> dialog I will see no keys  at all, sometimes I will see >200 keys
>> which is really weird.
>>
>> And one last question: is there also a utility, similar to the one
>> that is supplied with the windows drivers, to tell the tablet to
>> send other key combos? In default mode it sends weird combinations
>> with ctrl- and shift- and I somehow failed to remap that.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Jin
>>
>>
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Vince,
Can you send your "/etc/udev/rules.d/50-local.rules" file too?

Thanks.


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Christopher Barry

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