Tablet Genius Pensketch 9x12 Opensuse 11.3

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#1

Hi everyone:

I am an amateur with Linux so that’s why I came here to ask about the installation of this tablet in opensuse 11.3. I would like you read some tips of you because I’ve tried the “wizardpen” driver, downloaded it and with the 1-Click inst directly from the opensuse site but I can’t make the tablet work in my computer also I don’t know what to do with the “xorg.config” because insted of that I have one named “xorg.config.install”. Following some tutorial I’ve read that “xorg.conf” must be modify but I don’t get how it must be done.

So I am using an Opensuse 11.3 x86_64 with KDE 4.4.4 .

Also I’ve tried to make it work with Inkscape and when I go to the “Input devices” it recognizes three “tablet PF 1209” but still don’t make it work.

Hope to see some advices and thank you for you help.

R.M.

#2

hello all potential answer givers–i can’t fix this users problem, so if
you look in PLEASE try to help

On 01/07/2012 10:46 PM, Ricardo roy wrote:
>
> I am an amateur with Linux so that’s why I came here to ask about the
> installation of this tablet in opensuse 11.3.

you are smart to ask…

> I would like you read some
> tips of you because I’ve tried the “wizardpen” driver,

i found this “Works under Linux with the “evdev” driver for the X.org X
Window System (wizardpen driver didn’t work for me).” on this page
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883101106

but, i wouldn’t know if that FOUR year old thread would apply to your
system, or not!

at the maker/sellers site
<http://www.geniusnet.com/wSite/ct?xItem=16841&ctNode=174&mp=1> i find
“OS Support Windows7/Vista/XP, Mac OS” which is NOT a good sign!! it is
always best when buying hardware to buy things which at least mentions
Linux in the specifications and on the box…

> downloaded it and
> with the 1-Click inst directly from the opensuse site but I can’t make
> the tablet work in my computer also I don’t know what to do with the
> “xorg.config” because insted of that I have one named
> “xorg.config.install”.Following some tutorial I’ve read that
> “xorg.conf” must be modify but I don’t get how it must be done.

hmmmmm…careful there! the tutorial you found could not possibly
work with your openSUSE 11.3 because 11.3 does not normally have an
xorg.conf file (which is why you couldn’t find one) and if you edited
your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install file, i’d say the next thing you need to
do is UN-edit it, if you can–put it back to its exact original
configuration…

i think your “I don’t get how it must be done” means you have not edited
you xorg.conf.install, which is GOOD!!

> So I am using an Opensuse 11.3 x86_64 with KDE 4.4.4 .

having looked over the documentation
<http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-reference/cha.tablet.html>
i think you should open YaST > Software Management, and select the
“Patterns” tab, then (in the left pane) scroll down to the “Base
Technologies” section and left click to place a green check in the
“TabletPC” section, and then click the accept button…

after YaST is finished, see if you get any response from the tablet’s
pen or mouse…

if not, what happens if you go to (in KDE) Personal Settings -
Configure Desktop > Hardware > Input Devices, look around in there, is
your tablet recognized there?

here, in my left panel of “input devices” window i can see keyboard,
mouse, touchpad and joystick…but, i don’t have a tablet and i hope you
see ‘tablet’(or something like that) if you do, then click to highlight
it and see what you can figure out.

> Also I’ve tried to make it work with Inkscape and when I go to the
> “Input devices” it recognizes three “tablet PF 1209” but still don’t
> make it work.

once you get it set up in the system (i do NOT know if any of the above
is helpful) then try it with both Inkscape and GIMP…one may work and
the other doesn’t…(don’t ask me why?)

> Hope to see some advices and thank you for you help.

since i’m guessing, i hope something works for you…let us know…

–
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#3

DD Caveat:

I want to thank you for the response Sir.Well, I’ve tried things that you just wrote and let me tell you what happened:

It seems like this “evdev” is a package or something similar I don’t know much about it. So, Do I need to install this “evdev” in my computer?, I’m a little bit confuse because I don’t know if it’s similar to Xserve.

And as you said, the tablet originally works under that systems. I read about it but I thought it would be easy to make it work under linux with the help of some tutorials, actually I took the desition to buy it, also, because I only need the work area of the tablet, I mean, I need the coordinates of the tablet, as in Inskape when you move the pointer, to use them in another program, to be able to control them. I’ve thinking if it’s possible treating the tablet as a mouse (?).

Ok I understand that but it means that they replace “xorg.conf” for “xorg.conf.install” ? I’ve noticed that in this directory, where “xorg.conf” lies, there is a directory named “xorg.conf.d” which contains some files that contain information about screen, mouse or similar hardware. So, I don’t know if it’s necessary to put an archive of the tablet there.

I followed the steps and nothing happened, no response. And I don’t even have a “Input Devices” in my “Hardware”, Do you think I must change my KDE version? . I tried in a section named “touchpad” and ask me for “synaptics” I installed and nothing happened.

I did that in both but still not working in both. I tried in another computer with the same Opensuse and there both programs recognice only two but still not recognicing the tablet.

Thanks a lot for all your help and I want to ask you one more time about any other thing I could do for this hardware. I’ve been thinking to change my version of Opensuse to 12.1 or all the operating system. Thanks alot, once again, Sir.