Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Ongoing issues with Bambooo Pen & Touch

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On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:10 AM, ray klassen
<jul...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just purchased a Bambooo Pen & Touch (Product=CTH-460) and am having an
> adventure getting it configured. (Fedora 11 X86_64, but similar results with
> Ubuntu 386 and Debian 386 ) Pulled down a copy of linuxwacom-0.8.5-8 and
> configured/compiled it, including wacom.ko (module is loaded on boot
> /etc/sysconfig/modules/wacom.modules) and edited the rules.d/60-wacom-rules,
> and xorg.conf files to spec.
>
> #############What works:
>
> 1) On plug in, tablet is properly identified by wacom.ko and udev creates
> the symlinks /dev/input/wacom and /dev/input/wacom-touch
>
> 2) /proc/bus/usb/devices reports that the device is being managed by 'wacom'
>
> 3) On starting X, hal identifies 2 devices called "Wacom Bamboo P&T 4x5" and
> resgisters them as extensions.
>
> 4) I tested the device in Windows with all the proprietary drivers loaded.
> Works fine. Hardware is not the problem.
>
> ##########What doesn't work:
>
> 1) Running wacdump against the newly created devices (the ones wacom and
> wacom-touch point to) produces no output besides the following table.
>
> MODEL=Unknown                           ROM=1.0-6
> CLS=USB  VNDR=Unknown  DEV=Unknown  SUB=UNKNOWN
> TOOLTYPE=NONE                            IN_PROX=out
>   BUTTON=+00000 (+00000 .. +00000)         POS_X=+00000 (+00000 .. +14760)
>    POS_Y=+00000 (+00000 .. +09225)    DISTANCE=+00000 (+00000 .. +00063)
> PRESSURE=+00000 (+00000 .. +01023)    ABSWHEEL=+00000 (+00000 .. +00071)
> RELWHEEL=+00000 (-00001 .. +00001).... etc.. etc. etc..
>
> Just for the test I ran it against the mouse device (outside of X) and as I
> moved the mouse I got changing values in a lot of the fields. Nothing
> happens on the wacom devices in wacdump when I move the stylus, or finger on
> the pad
>
> 2) X seems to ignore the stanzas entered into xorg.conf for stylus, eraser,
> cursor, pad, touch and just grab what it wants from hal (not that worried
> about that; once I've got some actual output from wacdump, I'll figure out
> what configs to hack in the hal department)

Hi Ray,

Please try 0.8.5-9 released late yesterday.  Ayuthia's -34 patches
were incorporated.  Hopefully it will work for you.  They work for the
P & T in Ubuntu.

Favux