Re: usbtablet driver in Xorg server? Wacom Bamboo

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:40:20AM -0500, Rob Q wrote:
>   I'm using the modular Xorg server from pkgsrc (because XFree86
>   doesn't/didn't support my nvidia 8600 GTS) on -current, and I can't get
>   the usbtable driver to load for my Wacom Bamboo:
> 
>      %grep usbtable /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>      (II) LoadModule: "usbtablet"
>      (WW) Warning, couldn't open module usbtablet
>      (II) UnloadModule: "usbtablet"
>      (EE) Failed to load module "usbtablet" (module does not exist, 0)
>      (EE) No Input driver matching `usbtablet'
>      (EE) No Input driver matching `usbtablet'
> 
> 
>   It does come up as a wsmouse:
>      %dmesg | egrep 'uhidev0|ums0'
>      uhidev0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
>      uhidev0: Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTE-450, rev 2.00/1.13, addr 2, iclass 3/1
>      uhidev0: 33 report ids
>      ums0 at uhidev0 reportid 1: 3 buttons and Z dir.
>      wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0
>      uhid0 at uhidev0 reportid 2: input=8, output=0, feature=1
>      uhid1 at uhidev0 reportid 3: input=0, output=0, feature=1
>      uhid2 at uhidev0 reportid 4: input=0, output=0, feature=1
>      uhid3 at uhidev0 reportid 16: input=0, output=0, feature=2
>      uhid4 at uhidev0 reportid 17: input=0, output=0, feature=16
>      uhid5 at uhidev0 reportid 19: input=0, output=0, feature=1
>      uhid6 at uhidev0 reportid 32: input=0, output=0, feature=1
>      uhid7 at uhidev0 reportid 33: input=0, output=0, feature=1
> 
> 
>   I can use it as a mouse in GIMP but there's no pressure sensitivity, and
> the
> eraser end of the pen isn't recognized as an alternate pointer (as it is
> under
> GIMP with WinXP (when I can get it to work at all, due to know gtk-win32
> bugs)).  The "Configure Extended Input Devices" menu says I have no extended
> input devices.
> 
> 
>   Does anyone else have this working?



I have a Wacom Graphire4 tablet working just fine (including pressure
sensitivity) with the usbtablet(4) driver from NetBSD's xsrc .  IIRC this
driver was written by Lennart Augustsson for Net/OpenBSD, but was never
included upstream.

The code is in xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/usbtablet,
it's probably not that hard to get it working with modular X.org.  But I'm
still using xsrc XFree86 on my desktop.


        Geert