Wacom Intuos2 6x8

Recently upgraded a PhenomX3 to from 13.1 to LEAP 42.2 (kernel 4.4.49-16) and the Intuos2 6x8 tablet appears to be recognised, but doesn’t actually move the pointer

The kernel appears to have recognised the tablet (on plugging the USB cable in):

 1631.414490] usb 4-2: USB disconnect, device number 2
 1632.883579] usb 4-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-pci
 1633.050625] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=056a, idProduct=0042
 1633.050632] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 1633.050635] usb 4-2: Product: XD-0608-U
 1633.050645] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Tablet
 1633.059872] input: Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/0003:056A:0042.0006/input/input22
 1633.060162] wacom 0003:056A:0042.0006: hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Tablet XD-0608-U] on usb-0000:00:12.1-2/input0

as does Xorg (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)

 1631.414490]   1633.208] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/0003:056A:0042.0006/input/input22/event3"
  1633.208] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor" (type: CURSOR, id 13)
  1633.209] (**) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
  1633.209] (**) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: (accel) acceleration profile 0
  1633.209] (**) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
  1633.209] (**) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4

and pen-hover/touch input can be interpreted with evemu-record
(and Gnome’s Wacom settings window recognises that an Intuos2 6x8 is being attached, or detached)

E: 26.191784 0000 0000 0000    # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ----------
E: 26.195779 0003 0000 0000    # EV_ABS / ABS_X                0
E: 26.195779 0003 0001 0000    # EV_ABS / ABS_Y                0
E: 26.195779 0003 0019 0000    # EV_ABS / ABS_DISTANCE         0
E: 26.195779 0003 001a 0000    # EV_ABS / ABS_TILT_X           0
E: 26.195779 0003 001b 0000    # EV_ABS / ABS_TILT_Y           0
E: 26.195779 0001 0140 0000    # EV_KEY / BTN_TOOL_PEN         0
E: 26.195779 0003 0028 0000    # EV_ABS / ABS_MISC             0
E: 26.195779 0004 0000 0000    # EV_MSC / MSC_SERIAL           0
E: 26.195779 0000 0000 0000    # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ----------

but the Xorg.0.log reports lots of errors during the same ‘pen hover/touch’ events, and the mouse pointer doesn’t move

(EE) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: usbParse: Ignoring event from invalid serial 0
(EE) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: usbParse: Ignoring event from invalid serial 0
(EE) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: usbParse: Ignoring event from invalid serial 0
(EE) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: usbParse: Ignoring event from invalid serial 0
(EE) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: usbParse: Ignoring event from invalid serial 0
(EE) Wacom Intuos2 6x8 Pen cursor: usbParse: Ignoring event from invalid serial 0

the pen’s eraser doesn’t move the mouse pointer either.

Some very old Fedora posts suggested I add wacom to /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf, which I did (and then
modprobe wacom later). The wacom module managed to be loaded anyway, without me explicitly issuing a
modprobe command, and the pen still doesn’t work.

Thanks for any help!
David Fong

SOLVED (?)

Installed the wacom drivers in MrBadGuy software.opensuse.org repository (version 0.34 of xf86-input-wacom, instead of version 0.32), and now the Intuos2 tablet works

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=home%3Amrbadguy%3Awacom&package=xf86-input-wacom

thanks to the openSUSE guys to make it so easy for 3rd party individuals to make available updates like this!

David