Bug 208194 – x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.7.8_p3 driver no longer works in gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r6

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ivan Trombley 2008-01-30 17:08:31 UTC]

Device /dev/input/wacom is missing. The wacom driver works fine in 2.6.23-r3.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-01-30 22:06:00 UTC]

x11-drivers/linuxwacom version? emerge --info? dmesg output?

[Comment 2 Ivan Trombley 2008-01-31 04:15:09 UTC]

Created attachment 142253 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 3 Ivan Trombley 2008-01-31 04:15:30 UTC]

Created attachment 142254 [details]
dmesg

[Comment 4 Ivan Trombley 2008-01-31 04:15:48 UTC]

Created attachment 142255 [details]
Xorg.0.log

[Comment 5 Ivan Trombley 2008-01-31 04:16:25 UTC]

x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.7.8_p3

[Comment 6 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2008-01-31 11:31:38 UTC]

Ivan,

From your Xorg logs, it appears the /dev/input/wacom device doesn't exist.  Could you please check whether the wacom device is being created under a different name (such as in /dev/input/by-id/)?  Thanks...  5:)

[Comment 7 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-01-31 19:31:40 UTC]

Do your 2.6.23-r3 and 2.6.23-r6 have identical configs?

[Comment 8 Ivan Trombley 2008-02-03 02:14:46 UTC]

Sorry for the delay getting back. After some investigation I discovered the wacom files in 2.6.23-r6 are missing the definitions for the BambooFun device that's in 2.6.23-r3.

As this is the device I'm using (the small 4x6 one) then that's most likely the cause.

[Comment 9 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-02-08 22:04:18 UTC]

Which files do you mean? I just went through the (small) diff from -r3 to -r6 and could not find any wacom/BambooFun related changes at all.

[Comment 10 Ivan Trombley 2008-02-09 07:10:18 UTC]

Doh, I'm really sorry. This is something that I added and completely forgot about it. Could I get this added to the Gentoo patch set? I'll add an attachment.

[Comment 11 Ivan Trombley 2008-02-09 07:10:56 UTC]

Created attachment 143023 [details]
BambooFun diff.

[Comment 12 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-02-12 00:48:55 UTC]

Removing regression.

It seems the kernel version (in 2.6.24 too) is older than the latest development release.  I'm adding kernel@ to see what they say about including your patch.

Besides that, you can try using the linuxwacom development version from ikelos' git overlay at git.overlays.gentoo.org.

[Comment 13 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2008-02-12 11:21:34 UTC]

If you'd like us to assist that patch going upstream and include it in gentoo-sources then please reassign the bug to [e-mail]

[Comment 14 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2008-02-12 22:48:58 UTC]

I just included my testing version in the main tree (without the bamboofun patch), but I've left it masked until some people have tested it with older kernels and older xorgs.  It's been working fine for me with 2.6.24 for a few weeks though, so do give it a go and please report any issues on bug 147537...  5:)

[Comment 15 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-05-16 22:41:48 UTC]

it's unmasked, so just compile with USE=module, and it should work. Please reopen if you disagree.

[Comment 16 Ivan Trombley 2008-05-19 00:38:42 UTC]

Thanks.