new tablet (wacom bamboo pen & touch) cannot be recognized. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install current linuxwacom from portage 2. plug in wacom bamboo pen & touch 2. restart system Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: file in /dev/input/wacom Short investigations leads to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/477105 , wich have good links and success report for same problem in UBUNTU in short, for now at least following is needed: 1)new ebuild for linuxbamboo 0.8.5_p9 2)patch for udev rules with new devices 3)some patches for linuxwacom sourcetree more! the old patch for linuxwacom that adds --disable-xf86config option does not work anymore. A new one is needed.
> > 1)new ebuild for linuxbamboo 0.8.5_p9 sorry, linuxwacom. :)
Created attachment 217158 [details] a new patch to add --disable-xf86config option
Created attachment 217184 [details] "dri" ebuild ebuild for linuxwacom-0.8.5_p9 with one and only one patch, that adds --disable-xf86config option. bamboo pen and touch does _not_ work with it yet, it is only a dump of working materials.
Created attachment 217306 [details] a patch with support for new bamboo pen & touch
Created attachment 217308 [details] actual ebuild this ebuild does work. Yet, not all gestures supported, and manual modifications fo 60-wacom.rules is needed.
The linuxwacom package used by the ebuild (linuxwacom-0.8.5-9) does not seem to be available anymore. Instead there is a more recent version (linuxwacom-0.8.5-10.tar.bz2). The linux wacom webpage claims there are now 5 more bamboo tablets added, so maybe the bamboo patch set is not needed anymore. I tried changing the ebuild to the new version and took out the bamboo patch, but the compilation fails with: /bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory Does anyone know how to resolve this? More of the log: Making all in 2.6.27 make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src/2.6.27' Building linuxwacom drivers for 2.6 kernel. ***Note: Drivers not enabled as modules in your kernel config but requested through configure are NOT built make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-gentoo-r6/build M=/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src/2.6.27 make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6' WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions. LD /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src/2.6.27/built-in.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src/2.6.27/wacom_wac.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src/2.6.27/wacom_sys.o LD [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src/2.6.27/wacom.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1 modules /bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [__modpost] Error 127 make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src/2.6.27' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/linuxwacom-0.8.5_p10/work/linuxwacom-0.8.5-10/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
(In reply to comment #6) >>***Note: Drivers not enabled as modules in your kernel config but requested through configure are NOT built have you enabled a wacom kernel module in menuconfig ?
It was enabled. I could see it in menuconfig and i could also see it in /usr/src/linux/.config and there was a module in /lib/modules that i tried first. I nevertheless recompiled the kernel and it worked. Maybe the kernel sources was in a funny state. The pen is now working nicely, but the touch part is very unreliable. Sometimes the cursor jumps around, sometimes it doesn't move at all an scrolling is the opposite way of what i would expect. But the pen part is the most important one for me, so I'm happy.
Created attachment 220327 [details] Version bumped ebuild Version bump of ebuild. Bamboo patch also commented out since it currently fails and release info indicates that support for recent bamboo devices have been added. Pen part works, but touch is very flaky (on a laptop which also has the synaptics driver loaded).
Created attachment 228391 [details] Version bump Now the only available source is 0.8.5-12. It needs linuxwacom-0.8.5_p9-xf86config.patch. I didn't need the linuxwacom-0.8.5-9-bamboo-patch-set-v2.patch to make my CTH-661 (00d3) work.
I've been working on getting my CTH-460 (00d1) Bamboo Pen and Touch working under Gentoo for over a month now. The major issue with the newer tablets is that the kernel driver included in the linux kernel source is way behind what is available in the linuxwacom package. It is not actually necessary to install the linuxwacom package if you are running xorg-server 1.7 or higher. You can just use the xf86-input-wacom driver. However, it is necessary to extract the kernel module source code from the linuxwacom package and compile the kernel module from this and install it in the proper directory: i.e. /lib/modules/2.6.34-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko Either that, or, when installing the linux kernel sources automatically patch the wacom kernel module source code from the latest linuxwacom package. This would go a long way in getting a "plug and play" experience for Wacom tablet users in Gentoo.
Reassigning since I can't look after linuxwacom any more.
I'm running a Bamboo Pen & Touch (CTH-460) with xorg-server 1.7, kernel module from linuxwacom-0.8.8-8 and xf86-input-wacom-0.10.8. Pen was always working perfect, but touch part was unusable (cursor stopped moving, jumped around etc) until I patched xf86-input-wacom-0.10.8. In wcmCommon.c, changing the line: #define BAMBOO_TOUCH_JUMPED 30 to #define BAMBOO_TOUCH_JUMPED 300 improved touch functionality drastically. Gestures now seems to working, too (I only tested scrolling). Thanks to Chris from linuxwacom mailinglist for this suggestion: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTikNeW5%2B7N8Cgfj%2B4NKt6dkJbd8ogQaih25CViPz%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=linuxwacom-discuss
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