Duncan Mac-Vicar P.


Genius tablet under Linux

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I just made a old Genius tablet I got from my grandfather to work under Linux.

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The Xorg driver is here. I packaged it for openSUSE in my personal repository in the build service (x11-input-wizardpen and x11-input-wizardpen-tools).

Add a udev rule so the device gets always the same file in /dev, you can find those attributes in /proc/bus/input/devices

duncan@linux:~> cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-tablet.rules
KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003"
, SYSFS{idVendor}=="5543", SYMLINK+="input/tablet

Add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier      "WizardPen Tablet"
  Driver          "wizardpen"
  Option  "Device"        "/dev/input/tablet"
  Option  "TopX"          "0"
  Option  "TopY"          "2517"
  Option  "BottomX"       "31859"
  Option  "BottomY"       "32762"
  Option  "MaxX"          "31859"
  Option  "MaxY"          "32762"
EndSection

Then add to the ServerLayout section:

InputDevice    "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice     "WizardPen Tablet"      "AlwaysCore"

Restart, drawing with Krita is really fun!

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January 24th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

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  1. That’s really interesting because until now I assumed that Krita would only work with wacom pads (there’s a bug about a medion tablet) and only if the input device was called “pen” or “stylus”. It’s really good to have this bit of data: could we copy it into the Krita faq?

    Boudewijn Rempt

    25 Jan 07 at 3:22 am

  2. Duncan,

    Thank you for packaging the wizard pen drivers. I have installed the wizardpen packages from your build, but have some problems.

    Firstly, I get the following error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

    (II) LoadModule: "wizardpen" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//input/wizardpendrv.so dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//input/wizardpendrv.so: undefined symbol: __stackchkfaillocal (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules//input/wizardpendrv.so (II) UnloadModule: “wizardpen” (EE) Failed to load module “wizardpen” (loader failed, 7) (EE) No Input driver matching `wizardpen’ allen@asus:/var/log> ls /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wizardpendrv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wizardpendrv.so

    See the double // in the Failed to Load line.

    Also, I cannot get udev to give the device a unique name. It keeps defaulting back to mouse1. The entry under /proc/bus/input/devices is the same as yours except the product on mine is 0005 (not 0003).

    The tablet is found, and I can run the calibration, but ofcourse, without the driver, I can’t use it.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Allen

    Allen

    19 Jun 08 at 6:25 am

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  4. It looks like that the double line has nothing to do with loading the driver becouse in the Xorg.x.log shows other drivers being loaded just fine even with the //. That is probably just a but and not the actual loading. But the problem is when resolving a name for instance __stackchkfaillocal is not resolving in the driver. What is this __stackchkfaillocal? Is there something I need to install? Or does something have to be referenced?

    Thanks,

    Aaron

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