Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Ink blogging



4 comments:

Unknown said...

How did you get the wacom tablet to work? I have been trying but so far no luck (also on Ubuntu Gutsy).

Åsmund Ødegård said...

I installed the following wacom related packages:

wacom-tools
xserver-xorg-input-wacom

After that the magic thing was to realize that the wacom device is attached to /dev/ttyS1 (pointed out but a commenter on one of my other posts here). The following lines are the relevant part from my xorg.conf:
----8<----
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
----%<----

These inputs must then also be mentioned in the serverlayout:
----%<----
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
----%----

That should be all.

Unknown said...

Thank you, it works now!

What application did you use to write the blog entry? Did you just use gimp or is there a text input app that I haven't found yet?

Christian

Åsmund Ødegård said...

Nice to hear it worked! I use Xournal to take notes, it's just a notetaking app so mure suitable than Gimp. You should switch on "Xinput" in the menus to enable use of the higher resolution of the wacom device.

I had some strange vectoring problem which settled after a few minutes of use - much like the mouse problem. I'm interested to hear about your experience!