Help with Wacom Intuos2 Serial - Suse 11.3

mhunt0 · January 5, 2011, 1:00am

I recently reported problems installing my Wacom Intuos2 Serial with Suse 11.3 on another thread, I haven’t solved and read/search more information and pm a few people, based on what I read, I needed to start from scratch.

Therefore, I just re.installed OpenSuse 11.3 and follow instructions on Wacom-project website, which meant,as I understood:

Only required Xf86
Create the xorg.conf file with the definitions for the Wacom.

Didn’t succeed, so here’s a detailed info of what I did, hope someone here can see what I’m still missing or doing wrong.

Thank you.

Info:

KERNEL:

Linux linux-nhxe 2.6.34-12-default #1 SMP 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

X-Server:

X.Org X Server 1.8.0

INSTALL PREBUILD:

1.a linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/prebuilt

1.b. Configure xorg.conf

No results.

wacom related info on xorg.cong file:

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “stylus”
Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS1” # SERIAL ONLY
Option “Type” “stylus”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4” # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “eraser”
Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS1” # SERIAL ONLY
Option “Type” “eraser”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4” # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “cursor”
Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS1” # SERIAL ONLY
Option “Type” “cursor”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4” # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

This section is for Intuos3, CintiqV5, Graphire4, or Bamboo without touch

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “pad”
Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS1” # SERIAL ONLY
Option “Type” “pad”
EndSection

This section is for the TabletPC that supports touch

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “touch”
Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS1” # SERIAL ONLY
Option “Type” “touch”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4” # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout”
Screen “vboxvideo”
Screen “vmware”
Screen “cirrus”
Screen “fbdev”
Screen “vesa”
InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents” # For non-LCD tablets only
InputDevice “touch” “SendCoreEvents” # Only a few TabletPCs support this type
InputDevice “pad” # For Intuos3/CintiqV5/Graphire4/Bamboo tablets
EndSection

Error report on xorg.0.log

NOFU

25.393] (II) LoadModule: "wacom"
25.404] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so
25.413] dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86errno
25.413] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so
25.413] (II) UnloadModule: "wacom"
25.413] (EE) Failed to load module "wacom" (loader failed, 7)

Since that failed, download latest version of Xf86, compile and install.

That meant installing from Yast:

Base Development
Tcl/TK Development.

“kernel”,
“kernel-source”
“kernel-syms”
“xorg-x11-server-sdk”

Installation of Xf86 was done this way:

cd xf86-input-wacom-0.10.8
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install

Reset (to reset X)

—> no results.

I’ll appreciate any help to solve my problem, Just remember it’s a serial tabled, not usb.

Thank you

hendersj · January 5, 2011, 2:41am

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:06:01 +0000, mhunt0 wrote:

> I’ll appreciate any help to solve my problem, Just remember it’s a
> serial tabled, not usb.

As I suggested before, you might try posting to the Wacom-linux mailing
list - they may be able to assist you with more detailed information than
we have here (since it appears nobody else has a wacom serial tablet in
these forums).

Ping (the Wacom project lead) is very good and can probably get things
working well for you with a few minor tweaks. I spent some time working
with him and other developers on some preliminary support for the Intuos4
(OLED support mostly) and they were very easy to work with.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

mhunt0 · January 5, 2011, 4:03am

hi, I wrote him an email hope he gets back to me.

hendersj · January 6, 2011, 6:47am

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:06:04 +0000, mhunt0 wrote:

> hi, I wrote him an email hope he gets back to me.

I saw your post over there and see there’s an answer indicating that
serial support was removed from the xf86-input package in question, but
that there’s a patch you can apply to bring it back with a specific
version. Ping didn’t reply, but one of the other devs did.

I wasn’t aware they’d removed serial support - so glad you did follow up
with them because we all have learned something, I think.

Jim

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mhunt0 · January 8, 2011, 6:04pm

Downloaded the files and will do the process as soon as I have time to spare. o.o; very bad they dropped serial support for tablets and that even usb support gives some trouble, not having drawing tablets working with so much hassle is a big letdown for Linux in general for me since I use Linux and a tablet for RL work.

hendersj · January 9, 2011, 2:56am

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:06:02 +0000, mhunt0 wrote:

> Downloaded the files and will do the process as soon as I have time to
> spare. o.o; very bad they dropped serial support for tablets and
> that even usb support gives some trouble, not having drawing tablets
> working with so much hassle is a big letdown for Linux in general for me
> since I use Linux and a tablet for RL work.

I would submit an enhancement request to the linux-wacom folks (doing so
to the openSUSE team wouldn’t really change anything since the code comes
from upstream).

I do actually use an Intuos4 tablet here, but it’s USB - so when you
submit the enhancement request, be sure to note that it’s serial
tablets and not all drawing tablets - because at least with the Wacom
tablets, USB devices are supported.

But I do understand what you’re saying.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

mhunt0 · January 9, 2011, 4:54pm

I’ll do it. The day I got tired of Windows was due to a couple of things that simply happened together, like that ‘system’ process spiking to 100% of cpu usage for no apparent reason, or the os simply disregarding support to the devices I have, old yes, eventually I may get a new ones, yes… but… fully functional and fill my needs at this time. Will post the results when I follow the instructions give to me on the mail-list.

mhunt0 · January 25, 2011, 3:57am

well, the patch method didn’t work, may be my lack of knowledge on doing this sort of things, but since I can’t have a non-working tablet. I had no choice but to return to 11.2 which I installed again yesterday.

I may try again when I have time to spare (i.e… no work waiting to be done) , which is not likely to happen in a while.