Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Can't get linuxwacom working after upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10

[Thomas J. <thj...@gm...>]

Salvatore Iovene wrote:
> Hi Dylan and thanks for answering! Please see my comments below.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dylan Thurston <dth...@ba...> wrote:
>> Do you have anything in your xorg.conf?  If so, try deleting it.  The necessary
>> commands might well have changed.  (I think it's preferable to configure the
>> tablet via an fdi file for hal, as documented many places.)
> 
> If I delete anything wacom from my xorg.conf, then the tablet works
> but All my configurations are lost. They were as xsetwacom commands in
> ~/.xinitrc though, so that must be the reason, since you say that
> xsetwacom won't work anymore.

xsetwacom should still work, it's just that the device names have
changed. You need to do

  xsetwacom set <device-name> ...

where "device-name" should be in quotes and can be found using "xinput
list --short".

Tom