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success with Wary 094

#166 Post by don570 »

I tried out the latest Puppy.

I was able to use my Wacom Bamboo tablet with Wary 094.
The pressure sensitivity worked with mtpaint 3.31
I installed wacom-0.8.4-4_xorg_driver.pet from
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16491

It was simple to install because xorg.conf already had a
'ServerLayout' section

Note that it wouldn't work when I tried the following:
wacom-0.10.7_xorg_driver.pet
wacom-0.10.8_xorg_driver.pet

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Note to Joe Jasniewski

It seems like wacom-0.8.4-4_xorg_driver.pet is
the only version that will work with Puppy 4.3.1

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#167 Post by BarryK »

I was thinking that I might buy a tablet input device for testing on Wary, but the Wacom Bamboo is not cheap, $239 (Perth, Australia, AU Dollars -- about same as US):

http://www.ple.com.au/?p=snapshot&inventory_id=749

Any online supplier that is significantly cheaper, or any alternate brand? -- surely something from China can be obtained for far less than that price.
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cost of wacom Bamboo

#168 Post by don570 »

Here in Canada you can get the WACOM BAMBOO for as little as
$69 CAN +16% sales tax but here's the catch...

The active area is only about 4x6 inches and there's no software inside.
This is good enough for me and probably for you since we get
the 'free' linux software. I like it for small artwork and drawings.
See my puppy on left.


There is a better model that has
Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4 inside the box. It's a good quality
program but it doesn't support layers and it's definitely not for linux.

http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_pen.php

There is another competing company in China but who knows if
their product would work in Puppy.

I noticed that Ubuntu linux says it supports AIPTEK

http://www.aiptek.com/Tablets/ST12/Features/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AiptekTablet

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reporting success

#169 Post by don570 »

I was able to use an earlier driver wacom-0.8.4-4-k2.6.30.5.pet

http://www.browserloadofcoolness.com/so ... 6.30.5.pet

on the latest luci 234 (just released )

However it still requires a pupsave file to be created first
because of period of black screen when choosing 'reboot'

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#170 Post by BarryK »

I have done some research:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01918
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01917
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01915

I have compiled the Wacom 0.8.8-10 driver for Wary.

I also compiled the Wizardpen driver that supports many brands of tablets other than Wacom. Some of these other brands are about 1/3 the price of Wacom here in Australia.
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mtpaint modified

#171 Post by don570 »

I tested Barry's new wacom driver that he compiled for Wary
AVAILABLE HERE

I love it . Perfect. I don't have the problems that I still have in Lucid Puppy.
Note that this driver definitely doesn't work with Lucid Puppy


On a related subject...

I received a modified version of mtpaint 3.34.56 from the
maintainer Dimitri Groshev that was compiled in Slack Linux.
He made some quick changes in the method used for mouse position
in the mtpaint window and he succeeded. No problems
now in pressure sensitivity. :D


He asked me to test it. It works perfectly in several version of Puppy linux

Here are some quick notes:

Wary094 excellent except for one minor flaw...it wouldn't launch.
I launched the terminal and typed

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ldd mtpaint

The terminal gave the message 'libtiff.so.4 not found'. So I made a
link to the older version of libtiff I found in /usr/lib/.

mtpaint now launches and works very well.

luci234 and lupq511 don't save the tablet settings each time I quit
and then relaunch mtpaint.

Lighthouse 5F --- mtpaint 3.34.56 now works great with tablet

If you want to try out this application, here's
a download site...

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-ebf11bdd.html

Post any bugs you find.
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Edit: Barry Kauler will be incorporating mtpaint 3.34.57 in future
versions of Wary

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tablet preferences for mtpaint

#172 Post by don570 »

I received a suggestion from Dmitry Groshev, maintainer of mtPaint
to solve the problem of the pressure settings in mtpaint not being
persistant with multiple launches. The solution was simple.

I was setting the mtpaint tablet preference for everything I saw on the list
i.e. pad, erasor, stylus and cursor. Dmitry recommended only setting
the 'stylus' to work on the screen and leave the others alone.

That did the trick and now I can use mtpaint perfectly in
lupq511 and luci 235 (beta of Lucid Puppy5.2)

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Here's the latest version of mtpaint (version 3.34.57) that fixed
all my problems. Hopefully it will be incorporated into the
next generation of Puppies.

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fae7d43d.html

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CORRECTED wacom-0.10.8_xorg_driver-lupq511.pet for Lupq-511

#173 Post by charlie6 »

Hi,
please find at bottom of page 10 this thread the corrected driver.
Again my apologizes to the forum, and many thanks to forum member Tempestuous.
Cheers, Charlie

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#174 Post by tempestuous »

Yes, charlie6 and I have been discussing the confusion in the latter part of this forum thread regarding compatibility of various wacom dotpets with different Puppy versions. Here's the overall situation:
The wacom drivers consist mainly of two components - an Xorg input plugin called wacom_drv.so, and a kernel module called wacom.ko.
There's also a udev rule which should load the kernel module (and plugin?) and some utilities for diagnosis.

The kernel module is obviously compatible only with the kernel version (and thus, Puppy version) it was compiled for.

Significantly, also, are the file location differences between Xorg versions;
Puppy 4.3.x and Wary both have Xorg 7.3 (xorg-server 1.3.0.0),
for which the plugin location is /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/input/

Puppy 5.x and Quirky both have Xorg 7.5 (xorg-server 1.7.6),
for which the plugin location is /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/

To add further to this complexity, the very latest wacom drivers have a different release series for versions of Xorg after 7.5.

I have just compiled the latest wacom drivers (released October 2010), and consolidated them for Puppy 5.x and 4.3.x

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#175 Post by tempestuous »

Puppy 5.1.x
The wacom drivers in Puppy 5.1.x are reasonably up to date, so the only thing missing is the udev rule, now attached.
After installing this dotpet, reboot.
Now modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as per the instructions in the first post in this thread.
Restart X, or reboot.
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#176 Post by tempestuous »

But if you want to try the very latest wacom drivers with Puppy 5.1.x, here they are, separated into their 2 main components; Xorg input, and kernel module.
Try just the Xorg input first. It includes the udev rule and the xsetwacom utility.
The updated kernel module supports a few extra USB device ID's than the original version in Puppy 5.1.x Apart from that, I don't know if it's any more advanced.

These dotpets will rename the original Puppy 5.1.x wacom drivers to "wacom_drv.so-old" and "wacom.ko-old", just in case the new versions don't work, and you need to reinstate the originals.
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xf86-input-wacom-0.10.8.pet
for Xorg 7.5 up
(81.24 KiB) Downloaded 818 times
wacom-module-0.8.8-10-k2.6.33.2.pet
for Puppy 5.1.x
(14.14 KiB) Downloaded 680 times

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#177 Post by tempestuous »

Puppy 4.1/4.2 and Puppy 4.3.x
Here is the complete wacom driver package; includes xorg plugin, kernel module, udev rule, and utilities: wacdump, xidump, xsetwacom, libwacomcfg.
Make sure you install the correct version !! Otherwise the wacom kernel module will be incompatible, and will obviously fail.

EDIT: 4.1/4.2 version was corrupt. Now fixed and uploaded.
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wacom-0.8.8-10-k2.6.25.16.pet
for Puppy 4.1/4.2
(109.73 KiB) Downloaded 546 times
wacom-0.8.8-10-k2.6.30.5.pet
for Puppy 4.3.x
(110.39 KiB) Downloaded 617 times
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#178 Post by tempestuous »

For Wary, Barry has provided the latest wacom drivers here
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -10-w5.pet
This is exactly the same Xorg plugin I packaged for Puppy 4.3.x

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successful test of new drivers

#179 Post by don570 »

I was successful with the new driver of charlie6
(at bottom of page10) installing with wacom bamboo tablet.

I tried it on lupq511 and luci236 and it now
allows the proper shutdown procedure
so that a pupsave file can now be created.

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mtpaint 3.34.57 works when the tablet preferences are
set up in the following manner....

Set 'stylus' to 'screen'
The other tools leave disabled.

Don't forget to tick 'opacity' and 'size'
or the pressure effect won't be seen .

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#180 Post by tempestuous »

don570 wrote:I was successful with the new driver of charlie6
(at bottom of page10)
That's the same as "xf86-input-wacom-0.10.8.pet" from above.
The version above is smaller because the binary has been stripped.

charlie6 wrote:to be used with the the already present wacom.ko
Sure, the existing wacom kernel module should work fine with the upgraded wacom Xorg plugin, but users should consider upgrading the kernel module as well, since this was provided by the wacom developers as part of the 0.10.8 driver package.
The upgraded kernel module I'm referring to is "wacom-module-0.8.8-10-k2.6.33.2.pet"

... and obviously, we're talking about Puppy 5.1.x/5.2

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upgrading the kernel module

#181 Post by shinobar »

tempestuous wrote:Sure, the existing wacom kernel module should work fine with the upgraded wacom Xorg plugin, but users should consider upgrading the kernel module as well, since this was provided by the wacom developers as part of the 0.10.8 driver package.
Yes, some new wacom products are supported by the upgraded kernel module.
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newest driver from tempestuous

#182 Post by don570 »

I tried the newest driver from tempestuous(page12) with luci238
and it worked better than the driver from Charlie6 (page10) in that it
worked properly with the mtpaint tablet preferences. It will now
support the the 'correct' standard way of setting all tools to 'Screen'

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keep wacom driver loaded

#183 Post by don570 »

Thank to a suggestion from Shinobar, I found
that it's easy to make the wacom driver automatically load
when rebooting.

I put

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ADDLIST=' wacom '
at the end of /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG
and that did the trick.

Boot manager wasn't much help since it only listed
wacom_w8001 which is the driver for a touchscreen.
That's not what I have.
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#184 Post by Makoto »

I'm running Puppy 4.3.1JP Retro (kernel 2.6.21.7), and I've decided I might as well try to get my Graphire3 tablet running with it. (at least, I think it's a Graphire3... it's model CTE-430 (pearl).) Will any of the 2.6.21.7 .pets from the first page work, or should I look for something specifically compiled for 4.3.1 and kernel 2.6.21.7?

I think I plugged it in under Puppy 4.2.1 (Retro) and the wireless mouse part of the tablet did work... but it doesn't under 4.3.1.
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which driver?

#185 Post by don570 »

Wary 098 and more recent
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 51&t=62891
have the wacom driver built-in which is convenient.

However you want a distribution that is Japanese.
LupQ can be converted to Japanese with a language pack
http://shino.pos.to/linux/lupq/features.html

To answer your question Puppy 4.3.1 uses the drivers on the first page,
but try Barry Kauler's driver as well since it was made only a couple of weeks ago.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -10-w5.pet

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