The file seems to be recognised:
hal-device | grep “input.x11_driver”
input.x11_driver = 'aiptek ’ (string)
input.x11_driver = ‘evdev’ (string)
input.x11_driver = ‘evdev’ (string)
But the tablet only works as a mouse. There is no pen pressure and the absolute coordinates of the drawing area are not recognised. It looks as though it’s being controlled by the evdev driver. The only other input device I have is a mouse. I’m puzzled as to why there are two evdev drivers listed.
My question is how can I force the tablet to use the aiptek driver? I have no references to any input devices in /etc/xorg.conf
sadly, I would doubt you will get an instant answer to your problem on the forum: a couple of threads; (or more); ran in the last couple of months on configuring wacom tablets; you could search on those;
let the forum know how you get along; the suse forum is full of volunteers; you might google search on a specific aiptek forum; you might get specialist help there
Hi and thanks for the reply. I’ve googled what seems like forever on this and the solutions are all based upon the old xorg.conf file before x 7.3. It seems as if 11.0 is not using xorg.conf anymore but hal fdi files for configuring input devices. My fdi file seems to be recognised but not used. The evdev mouse driver seems to be grabbing the tablet pen. THere seems little if any readable end user information about the switch from xorg.conf to hal.
So my question becomes, how do I stop evdev grabbing the pen and use the aiptek driver? Maybe this is not the correct forum to ask the question. Where else could I ask it?
Cheers, Steve.