(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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.

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

I put 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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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.

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

None of the Puppy 5 packages (drivers) would be compiled against the 2.6.21.7 kernel, though, would they?

I'll try the pets on the first page... or I will, if I can get some free time to sit down and experiment. (Bleah.)

If you're frightened to install a driver in an installation
that is already working perfectly then boot up with the option
pfix=ram

You can write the option in your menu.lst file.
Here are some sample entries that were written for Lighthouse 5g

http://www.lhpup.org/misc/GRUB/SampleMenu.lstEntries

Note that you just need to restart X to feel the difference in the stylus.
There is no need to reboot the computer.

Barry's driver definitely works for the regular Puppy 4.31 but
you'll have to test for the retro version.
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I'm okay with it (installing drivers I'm not completely sure about). I usually backup my pupsave first, though.

I thought none of the Puppy 5 versions used any of the Retro kernels, so I didn't think a driver package compiled for use in 5 would necessarily work for my Retro version.

I have just added the latest wacom drivers for Puppy 4.1/4.2
(with 2.6.25.16 kernel) at the request of charlie6. Now attached to the earlier post -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 462#467462

Oops, my Puppy 4.1/4.2 kernel source configuration was corrupt.
I have just corrected the error, and repackaged the wacom driver package for Puppy 4.1/4.2.
Would the 3 people who already downloaded this dotpet please download again.

Compiled linuxwacom-0.8.8-10 against Wary-500.
The pet including the X-driver and the kernel module, linuxwacom-0.8.8-10-k2.6.31.14-w5.pet is available here.
It supports recent models of wacom tablets.

Links to the on-line documents are available at /usr/share/doc/wacom/index.html.
Type 'man wacom' on the virtual terminal.

Hi
I'm new to puppy on a tablet ,and am using a acer travelmate c200 .I managed to install Puppy fine but would like some help with getting the drivers for lucid 5.2 so that i may use my stylus , any help is greatly appreciated

Hi nuttypup, welcome to puppy !
Asuming you have a wacom tablet ...and your are new to linux ...(I apologize if not , oops!)
1. A first and immediate solution to use the stylus is to open a terminal (or console), and to type afterward restart Xserver (do Menu/session/you will find restart X server among the proposed actions).
When the display is restarted, the stylus behaves like a mouse (with the difference that the cursor's arrow go back to one corner of the screen each time you lift the stylus from the tablet...! that may bring some fatigue to your wrist ..!)

2. The complete solution (if you want more to your tablet ...)
- you will have to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add lines requested by the xorg driver to know what to do with the tablet.
- please read carefully the first pages of this thread about xorg.conf editing; before editing xorg.conf it is recommended to make a copy of the current xorg.conf file (copy it under for instance xorg.conforigin or whatever name you want in case you would get back to the original)
- the wacom drivers for Lucid are the two pet file given in forum member Tempestuous at the en of page 12 this thread - post related to Puppy5.1.x.

Hope this would help you !
Have fun with Puppy
Cheers, Charlie

Hey Charlie thanks for the steps i installed the pets on page 12 by Tempestuous then ran the "depmod" followed by the "modprobe wacom" commands that you suggested .and restarted the xserver .But no response from the screen when i use the stylus will try editing the xorg.conf to see if i can get it work .please let me know if you have any other ideas on how i can set up my tablet thanks

good news i got it to work by editing the xorg.conf thanks a lot for your help Charlie and thank you Tempestuous for the driver pets

I installed the pets on page 12 and ran the commands. I opened xorg.conf and added However, I didn't see the section labeled "ServerLayout". Adding it prevents xorg starting.

As it is, I can use the tablet more or less like a mouse, but there are a few issues:
1. The tablet doesn't map to the screen consistently.
2. I have to redo the "depmod" and "modprobe wacom" commands every time I reboot. I don't know if that's expected behavior or not.
3. I can't test out the pressure sensitivity in gimp, because it doesn't detect the tablet so I can't configure it.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm glad I was able to get it working this well.

EDIT: Oh, and I'm using 5.2 with a bamboo pen tablet.

in my xorg file the section called server layout is above the input devices you just have to append the lines of code to that section
for me it starts at line 89 and my server layout looks like this hope this helps:)

Thanks, but it's just not there for me. Which version of puppy are you using? The closest thing I see is a section labeled "ServerFlags", which doesn't look anything like what you and others have quoted.

Update: I found that after running the xorg wizard a ServerLayout section will be added to xorg.conf. However, adding the lines hasn't solved my problem. The tablet still only functions like a mouse.

Nothing related to the tablet shows up the the input device sections of either GIMP or mtpaint. Just "Virtual Core XTEST Pointer", "Synaptics Mouse", and "Mouse0". If anyone has any idea what's wrong I would greatly appreciate it if you could help me.

EDIT: Ugh, I'm an idiot. My problem was that I didn't follow the directions here and here. I just copy/pasted the parameters other people used, not realizing they were different for my tablet. It works now. Thank you very much to everyone who posted useful info on this thread.[/url]

dont loose heart keep trying , make sure all the instructions of step4 are carried out you might have missed something