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Posted: **Thu 17 Jun 2010, 13:43**

Hi Pizzasgood, thanks again for you help and quick answer !
1.

....If you run the following command you should see it listed as "udevd":
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ps -eo comm | sort 

udevd is present in the list

2.

....try starting it by hand to see what happens:
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udevd --daemon

got this:

# udevd --daemon
error initializing udevd socket

I cannot figure out what it means.
...but I am not experienced enough to understand what it means...

[note: As my turbopup is a custom-home-french-remastered version maybe I should have to check what happens on a pure Turbopup live-cd install.]

LAST EDITED: Got it nominaly working !
More details hereafter.
1. On a Turbopup-Xtreme-v1.0 live-cd session, checked if udevd is running by doing

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ps -eo comm | sort

: not running;
doing

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# udevd --daemon
#

get it running
doing it a second time answers

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# udevd --daemon
error initializing udevd socket

if doing

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# killall udevd
#

then udevd is no longer running.
doing again

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# udevd --daemon
#

starts udevd;
if doing it a second time then

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# udevd --daemon
error initializing udevd socket

answers the same error

So it seems quite right to get an error message if udevd is already running

2. On the same Turbopup-Xtreme-v1.0 live-cd session, have installed wacom-0.8.4-4-k2.6.25.16.pet only; and copied the wacom bits (copied from the xorg.conf already previously edited on the frugall install).
3. have disconnected and aftrwds reconnected my Graphire1-wacom-usb-tablet;
4. looked inside /dev/input/...there is that wacom symlink present ...Yeah!
5. restarted X
6. checked mouse and stylus: nicely working !

7. Then I rebooted on my custom frugall Turbopup:
Have

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# killall udevd
#

and deleted the /dev/input/wacom symlink earlier manually created; did

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#udevd --daemon
#

and aftrwds redo the above 3.and 4 steps: and YESS! got /dev/input/wacom symlink automatically created.
Aftrwds completed 5. and 6. steps...OK!

Thanks for any idea.
Cheers
Charlie

Posted: **Sat 19 Jun 2010, 04:41**

Hi,
Once again "thanks Pizzasgood".
(again on a remasterized french-home-customized-Turbopup-Xtreme-v1.0 frugall);
wacom-0.8.4-4-k2.6.25.16.pet installed;
Now with a Volito 1 tablet USB connected ;
I remained a bit puzzled: once all steps given in page 1 were done, only the cursor did not work properly: when moved on the tablet the cursor displayed sporadic motions of the arrow; but if lifted about 5mm and moved ...keeping ±constant ...that 5mm gap, then it worked ... very ennoying to use it that way...!.
Looking at the Wacom pages, found this:

Option "CursorProx" "number"
sets the max distance from tablet to stop reporting movement for cursor in relative mode. Default for Intuos series is 10, Graphire series (including Volitos) is 42.

Solution:
edited xorg.conf and added this line

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      Option        "CursorProx" "100"

to get this

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 ...
Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier    "cursor"
      Driver        "wacom"
      Option        "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
      Option        "Type" "cursor"
      Option        "USB" "on"
      Option        "CursorProx" "100"
EndSection
...

(I got no result with "42" value - after "cut and try" got the cursor working with "100" - why 100 ? maybe should one try other values ???)

Note : the stylus works; eraser do not as the Volito 1 is not featured with eraser.
Cheers
Charlie

Posted: **Mon 21 Jun 2010, 00:04**

first of all my thanks and respect to all you guys involved in development wacom drivers for puppy. it worked great for me until recently.
but now i updated puppeee4.3x derivative to the latest version and drivers don't work anymore (i tried to install drivers fix xorg.conf and rebooted as usual but no desired effect - wacom still works like a touchpad) i wonder what's happened and what can be done about it. i'm very unexperienced on linux so not sure what information needed to solve this. (and how to get it)
Below is info i have
Tablet: wacom bamboo
Machine: eee701_4G
OS Puppeee4.3X RC6 (drivers worked on RC3)
Kernel seems 2.6.33.2celeron (i686) (as says hardinfo utility)
(If i got it right) xorg was updated to v.7.6

and some strange line appears in console when i try to modprobe wacom
FATAL: Module evdev not found.

thanks for care to read this ^^' would be glad of any advice

Posted: **Wed 23 Jun 2010, 00:45**

Evdev is builtin to the Puppeee kernel - I'm not sure why it gives that error but the module still loads at least for me.

Try the attached Xorg driver update and see if it works.

Posted: **Wed 23 Jun 2010, 04:31**

well actually eraser still not responds to pressure but thats bearable - i can draw now yay ^__^

UPD: Just mobilized eraser! =-) to get it to work i swapped third and fourth eraser actions in GIMP input-devices preferences

should this driver be added to the main list to make convenience for modern xorg users?

Posted: **Thu 24 Jun 2010, 15:01**

Ok. I will add this driver to the next Puppeee. There's a good chance it will work on Quirky too.

Posted: **Sat 10 Jul 2010, 16:54**

Hi,
see post here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 962#432962

on a HP5260 pc with Ge6200 nvidia card:
...eventually got wacom tablets (volito or graphire 1) working on ttuuxxx's Quirky-1.20-Firefox-v3.0 + wacom-0.8.4.4-k2.6.30.5.pet (thanks ttuxxx !);

The tablet was not fully working with xorg.conf default-upon-first-boot set to "vesa" video driver - editing xorg.conf « has no effect »

solution: CTRL-backspace, run xorgwizard and " CHOOSE " the "nv" driver,
run xwin and then apply steps on page 1 this thread.

Again thanks Pizzasgood
your pets prevent me now from some wrist pains !
Cheers, Charlie

Posted: **Wed 22 Sep 2010, 06:29**

Hi,
considering

Nymphobe wrote:Kernel seems 2.6.33.2 celeron

and

jemimah wrote:...Try the attached Xorg driver update and see if it works.

plus

wacom_works_thanks_to_jemimah-.jpg

Could then "wacom-0.10.7_xorg_driver.pet" work on Lucid 5.X.X or LupuQuickset (both running kernel 2.6.33.2)?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Cheers, Charlie

Posted: **Fri 24 Sep 2010, 08:16**

Hi again,
on lupq-508 Quickset (= lucid-5.xx derivative thanks to shinobar)

charlie6 wrote:...Could then "wacom-0.10.7_xorg_driver.pet" work on Lucid 5.X.X or LupuQuickset (both running kernel 2.6.33.2)?

Maybe I misunderstood something... ( wacom-xorg-driver running on kernel 2.6.33.2 is not a kernel-adapted-wacom-driver ? ).
I got a try using jeminah's pet + editing xorg.conf (added the wacom bits - just copied and paste the wacom bits from another working puppy4.20+wacom tablet).

results: did not work
- doing

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#depmod
#modprobe

causes cursor to move
- restarting X causes Xorg to stop. Had to boot from live-cd to re-edit xorg.conf to its initial version.

So I would ask to have a lucid adapted wacom-driver as I do not believe I could compile it myselve.

Thanks in advance for any answer.

Cheers, Charlie

Posted: **Sat 02 Oct 2010, 09:13**

Hi again,
****************************************

UPDATED by 01 december 2010 ( thanks Craig

)
wacom-0.8.8.10" drivers now tested and working in Puppy 5.1.x
See later post:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 459#467459

****************************************

**************************************
UPDATED 16 november 2010
about mtpaint: version 3.34.57 gives now pressure response using the wacom tablet stylus. Thanks to Dmitry Groshev, mtpaint maintainer - read more on next pages and page 12: posts from forum member don570 and mtpaint3.34.57.pet to be downloaded on
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fae7d43d.html
(thanks to don570)
END UPDATE 16 november 2010
**************************************
Here are also the xorg.conf details for a USB wacom Volito 1 tablet:

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "cursor"    "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option      "XkbModel" "pc102"
	Option      "XkbLayout" "be" #xkeymap0
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
#	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"	
	Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
	Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
	#Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "stylus"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
  Option        "USB"           "on"
  Option        "Mode"          "Relative"
  Option        "AlwaysCore"    "on"
  Option        "Speeed"        "1.0"
  Option        "Threshold"     "10"  
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "eraser"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
  Option        "USB"           "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "cursor"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option        "Type"          "cursor"
  Option        "USB"           "on"
  Option        "CursorProx" "100"   
EndSection

Thanks for any comment!
Have fun !
Cheers, Charlie

Posted: **Sat 09 Oct 2010, 16:17**

is working in gimp (but curiously not with mtpaint-3.34.55

Maybe try another version of mtpaint

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-6cf9e057.html

This is the previous version that came out 5 months ago.

Posted: **Tue 12 Oct 2010, 17:39**

I spent the weekend testing charlie6's new driver.
First of all thanks for all your hard work.
I was frightened to even attempt to try to compile this driver.
Here's my report:

I successfully installed the wacom-0.10.8_xorg_driver.pet
in lupq 511 following the instructions on the first page
of this thread.

I was unsuccessful in installing the driver on other
Lucid Puppies.

Just like you I wasn't able to get mtpaint 3.34.55
to respond to pressure, so I tried other versions
of mtpaint that I got from dragging out of other
distributions.

Here are my results:

Wary009 -----> mtpaint 3.1 pressure worked!
spup -----> mtpaint 3.1 pressure worked!
pfluxlite -----> mtpaint 3.1 pressure worked!
Lighthouse 5 -----> mtpaint 3.1 pressure worked!

Lighthouse 4.43 ----> mtpaint 3.34.33 pressure didn't work
Fluppy ----------> mtpaint 3.35 pressure didn't work

I tried compiling mtpaint with different options to find
what is causing the problem, but I couldn't get any version
of mtpaint 3.34.55 to respond to pressure input while
using lupq 511

But surprisingly Lighthouse Puppy 4.43 will work properly
with my version of mtpaint 3.34.55 including pressure input.

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With the driver installed, I have a small problem with rebooting.
When I reboot, the screen goes black for about 5 seconds.
This makes me think that I have crashed my machine, but
then the rebooting process proceeds correctly.
Do you have this problem? I think 'xorg.conf' needs to be modified.
Did you put anything special in your 'xorg.conf' ?
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Posted: **Thu 14 Oct 2010, 05:35**

Hi Don,
many thanks for your time and efforts in testing several mtpaint version and installation ! I can imagine how many time spent done all that !

I got a try on the mtpaint version given in your previous post without change. Thanks anyway for your time!

I was unsuccessful in installing the driver on other
Lucid Puppies.

Honestly, I hav'nt time at now to check those version. Maybe it could be a Xorg-version matter.

Here is my understanding when reading through the wacom-project website (More here: http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/):
there are 2 drivers needed to get the wacom tablet working:
(I believe Pizzasgood have already mentionned it on page 1 this thread)
1. a kernel driver : Pizzasgood's compiled drivers at page 1 this thread (for Lupq the already present wacom.ko may be used - at now oct.13 2010, I could not find a new driver for k 2.6.33.2 on wacom-projetc website);
2. a wacom-Xorg driver which is xorg-version dependent: wacom web site mentions version higher or lower than 1.7 for selecting the Xorg-driver-version.
For instance, Jemimah's wacom-0.10.7_xorg_driver.pet cannot work on Lupq as xf86-input-wacom-0.10.7 version works for Xorg-version lower than 1.7.
Lupq Xorg-version is 1.76; the 0.10.8 version has just been issued by begin october 2010 ... we have got good luck they have issued it !

...Here are my results:
...mtpaint 3.1 pressure worked!
...mtpaint 3.34.33 pressure didn't work...

I am happy pressure works for some mtpaint version/installation.
Having tested Gimp on Lupq: pressure works; for instance I got a well pressure dependent line width using the calligraphy option.
Question: how do you check that pressure is working? Are you Just checking the pressure value indicator present in the "test zone" in the tablet setup dialog box?
My meaning is: for instance on puppy 4.20 + mtpaint3.31, the displayed pressure value is varying accordingly with the applied stylus pression. So I can conclude "the pressure works". But while drawing, I cannot get a pressure dependent line width. Line width remains constant. Now I wonder if a Gimp-like calligraphy option is present on mtpaint. Maybe there is not one yet ...!

Also, I believe mtpaint considerations not to be linked with the wacom drivers (as it is working on Gimp). Maybe it would be preferable to open a new thread - or resume to an existing pet - for discussions about mtpaint use.

Thanks for any comment.
Have fun !
(must leave now...)
Cheers, Charlie

Posted: **Thu 14 Oct 2010, 22:55**

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My meaning is: for instance on puppy 4.20 + mtpaint3.31, the displayed pressure value is varying accordingly with the applied stylus pression. So I can conclude "the pressure works". But while drawing, I cannot get a pressure dependent line width. Line width remains constant. Now I wonder if a Gimp-like calligraphy option is present on mtpaint. Maybe there is not one yet ...!

That is very unusual. I've never seen that behaviour in Ubuntu or Puppy.
I highly recommend lighthouse puppy 4.43 for artists since the pressure
feature works beautifully.

When I tried the dragged-over-copies of mtpaint 3.31 in lupq I had no problems
at all. The test box shows that pressure is working and just stroking the stylus
on the window shows that it is working well i.e. opacity and width depend on pressure.
...and gimp is stable as a rock.
lupq is a very nice operating system.

I forgot to mention that I use a Bamboo tablet.

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Posted: **Sat 16 Oct 2010, 15:18**

Hi all !

When I tried the dragged-over-copies of mtpaint 3.31 in lupq I had no problems
at all

I got the same result as yours: the pressure is working on mtpaint-3.31 !
(on wacom Volito 1 tablet)
On a fresh lupq-save session, I first have got rid of all files of mtpaint-3.34.55; and afterwards installed muggins's compiled mtpaint-3.31, see here (thanks Muggins !)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22164
His post also direct to mtpaint-NLS and -Doc pets download links.

UPDATED by 01 december 2010 ( thanks Craig

)
wacom-0.8.8.10" drivers now tested and working in Puppy 5.1.x
See later post:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 459#467459

Have fun
Charlie

Posted: **Sat 16 Oct 2010, 16:47**

To charlie;

I forgot to metion that mtpaint requires it's preferences to be set
correctly to get pressure to work. The boxes 'size' 'flow' and
'opacity' need to be ticked, otherwise you don't see any effect.

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I did a second install of lupq to check and I discovered
several interesting things.

I believe that xorgwizard needs to run before installation off the
wacom driver in order to create a section "ServerLayout"

I discovered this by looking at the xorg.conf file supplied by shinobar
and there was no section "ServerLayout" When I put one in and did
a restart of X I got a black screen and a message to run xorgwizard
When I did this , a standard xorg.conf file was created and it was
easy to modify for a wacom tablet. It works well except
that I get a period of black screen when I do a reboot. Ordinarily
this is no problem, but because I had no pupsave file, this causes
problems. How will I create a pupsave file? The obvious answer
is to create one before installing the wacom driver.

______________________________________________

I also discovered in this second installation that the wacom
driver is permanent whereas in my first installation I have to
type 'modprobe wacom' each session. Not sure why???

_________________________________________________
I tried the newest version of Gimp 2.7.2 and although it was stable
I was disappointed that only the calligraphy tool responded to pressure.
Obviously a lot of work needs to be done.

______________________________________

Posted: **Sun 17 Oct 2010, 08:17**

Hi don,
thanks for your message !

I believe that xorgwizard needs to run before installation off the
wacom driver in order to create a section "ServerLayout"

I got the same behaviour - just ran xorgwizard to create the xorg.conf. Meanwhile I do not know the reason therefore.

...I get a period of black screen when I do a reboot

Same behaviour here - I did not matter/bother about that ...should I ?
Xorg server may just need some delay for starting...

...How will I create a pupsave file?

I send you a PM (personal message).
Any comment from forum is welcome.
Cheers, Charlie

Posted: **Wed 20 Oct 2010, 19:11**

charlie6 wrote:I got the same result as yours: the pressure is working on mtpaint-3.31 !

If the problem with mtPaint 3.34.55 is what I think it is, "touch ~/.mtpaint" will fix it (versions 3.34.49 to 3.34.55 are unable to create inifile if it doesn't exist, so couldn't remember tablet configuration settings).
This bug is fixed in version 3.34.56.

Other than that, with the very same mtPaint 3.34.55 binary from lupq 511, pressure works OK on my system (using Wacom Bamboo MTE-450 tablet).

-= With best regards, Dmitry Groshev, maintainer of mtPaint =-

Posted: **Thu 21 Oct 2010, 22:41**

I compiled the new version of mtpaint 3.34.56
and used it on Lighthouse Puppy5
and lupq 5.1.1 and it solved the problem of a .mtpaint file
not being saved to disk.

...but the previouly reported problem of the pressure not responding properly
remains both in lupq 5.1.1 and Lighthouse 5

____________________________________________

BTW
Version 3.34.55 worked perfectly on Lighthouse 4.43 , perhaps because
I was upgrading and there was an old .mtpaint file already existing.

Posted: **Wed 27 Oct 2010, 18:24**

I am reporting successful install of wacom driver
on luci 233 -beta version of lupu 5.2

My method:

I highly recommend making a pupsave file first!!!

Next, install charle6 's wacom driver.(previous page)

Next step is to get the operating system to recognize the driver.

I was able to do this with the terminal commands

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depmod
modprobe wacom

Next you must have an appropriate xorg.conf file

I use the same trick as I used for installing a wacom driver on lupq

So if you want to use this method , you should go to start menu and fire up the
prompt . Type in 'xorgwizard' and go thru the usual Puppy video driver
installation which only takes a few seconds. You type 'xwin' to get out
of this text mode and back to desktop.

This changes your xorg.conf file so that it is 'conventional' one
i.e. it has a section that has a 'Server Layout'
I think you can figure out the rest yourself, but here's my
'Server Layout' for a Bamboo tablet

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Section "ServerLayout"
    # For non-LCD tablets only
    # Only a few TabletPCs support this type
   # For Intuos3/CintiqV5/Graphire4/Bamboo tablets
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "touch" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "pad"
EndSection

and then after the definitions of mouse and keyboard
I inserted

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Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "stylus"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"    # USB ONLY
    Option         "Type" "stylus"
    Option         "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "eraser"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"    # USB ONLY
    Option         "Type" "eraser"
    Option         "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "cursor"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"    # USB ONLY
    Option         "Type" "cursor"
    Option         "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "pad"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"    # USB ONLY
    Option         "Type" "pad"
    Option         "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "touch"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"    # USB ONLY
    Option         "Type" "touch"
    Option         "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

restart X

Hope that isn't to confusing.
But I still have the screen go black a few seconds when I choose reboot.

Note: An alternate way to create a new xorg.conf file is to delete your current
xorg.conf file and then reboot. The operating system will check
while booting up and run xorgwizard when it finds no file exists. This creates a new compatible xorg.conf file.

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How to set up a Wacom Tablet

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wacom + mtpaint

wacom tablet stylus pressure vs mtpaint version

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Re: wacom tablet stylus pressure vs mtpaint version

new version of mtpaint compiled

successful install on luci 233 -beta version of lupu 5.2